Four years ago, after publishing her sophomore book, award-winning poet and professor of creative writing at the University ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages.

Somehow, none of her poems has found its way into picture books — until now, as Caldecott honoree Melissa Sweet turns ...

The South Korean author Han Kang was, before 2007, relatively unknown to English audiences. That year and to great acclaim, ...

Letter’s Arts & Entertainment section presents our specially curated picks of poetry from various contributing writers, staff ...

Wilfred Owen, a pivotal early 20th-century English poet, revolutionized war poetry with his stark, emotional depictions of ...

U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze has been appointed to a second one-year term by the Library of Congress, where he has served ...

Uh Oh, Spring Has Sprung! “Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, / The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; / And ‘tis my ...

We’re as eclectic as we can get today, with a Dakota children’s picture book, a novel with a strong woman protagonist, and a ...

A reflection on language, loss, and literary inheritance—where Ghalib, Faiz, and Hallaj echo through a contemporary English ...

Poems will be appearing in storefronts and other public spaces around North Carolina throughout the year as part of a ...

So I just try to move through the world with a lot of kindness, but also thinking about the responsibility I have as a global citizen and community member to all of my neighbors and also all the ...