Soon after Bill Buckley died, William Kristol published a column called “The Indispensable Man” in the New York ... of intellect and spirit. The poetry of Yeats has the same thing in mind.

In late 19th century Scotland the Walnut man, a performer in a travelling circus, has become frustrated with his tired act. Instead he wants to perform his poems and songs to the crowds.

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not ...

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

In the poem Island Man, Grace Nichols uses long and short lines to suggest the sea – look at the pattern in the stanza below: Morning and island man wakes up to the sound of blue surf in his ...

At once haunted, sensual, explosive and intensely deliberate, this epic of intersectional identity is indispensable to contemporary ... “i’m not the kind of black man who dies on the news,” they write ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss her translation ...

Richard Price plays with those resonances in his arresting if occasionally diffuse new novel, “ Lazarus Man ,” which percolates with all manner of rebirths in the wake of a building’s explosion amid a ...

A recet video by the British Museum described how its cuneiform instructions could be followed to find the resting place of ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...

and even thumbed through his poetry collection, a true measure of the man’s fandom; and clad his children in Wilco-branded clothing more or less since they were born. And yet, as a familiar rasp ...