The authors at the event include Eric LaRocca, Clay McLeod Chapman, E.K. Sathue (a pseudonym for author Erin Mayer), and ...

Newark Advocate faith columnist Mark Katrick contemplates why the shortest month of the year feels so long and suggests how ...

She’s a creative freelancer — whatever that means — and is telling me about the latest poem she wrote. It’s called “Echoes in ...

In her poem "The Mirror," Sylvia Plath portrays the complexity of the struggle of the imposter, the struggle to be oneself.

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

Myra Sklarew, a poet and teacher who found inspiration for her graceful, meditative verses in the natural world, her Jewish heritage and her early years working with rhesus monkeys at a research ...

Her 21st solo album, “She Walks in Beauty” (2021), was completed after she was treated for covid-19 and featured readings of Romantic poems by Keats, Shelley and Wordsworth, set to music by ...

At some point in February, Lord Mandelson - known as the Prince of Darkness from his days as a New Labour spin doctor - will fly to Washington to present his credentials to the new president ...

"My freedom lives in these pages and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and identity by using their voice to illuminate what's been buried, but not forgotten, in the ...

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling. In this week’s poem, Gregg Palmer invites us into the sinuous darkness of a stream running through winter ice. I love this poem’s vivid ...

The winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war – and why the peace process is far from over. By Michael Longley Editor’s note: this piece was ...

In his Collected Poems, his verse becomes an index for a life lived between ambition, pain, and disappointment. Delmore Schwartz. Editor’s Note: David Yaffe, a longtime Nation contributor ...