Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

In this wisdom-ridden sonnet, Shakespeare warns a young man about the fickleness ... This sonnet is a good read for readers interested in poems about time and the impact of life and legacy.

I didn’t mean to go to prison. For years I’d earned my living as a freelance journalist. But 15 years ago, out of financial ...

The story’s inquiry into how destructive obsession can be makes it a good read for fans of psychological horror. “The Bells” is arguably one of Poe’s most lyrically gifted poems.

Strange Scaffold’s newly released FPS I Am Your Beast is very fun for quite a few reasons, but chief among them is a deep appreciation for the poetry of good videogame violence. I’m not using the big ...

The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien contains nearly 250 individual works spanning more than five decades, 70 of them ...

The literary world often seems to stand apart from the working class, but poets like Fish are keeping the tradition of ...

Amanda Gorman, a poet and activist who in 2021 made history as the youngest poet ever to read at a presidential inauguration, debuted a new poem on the third night of the Democratic convention ...

Amanda Gorman, the country's first national youth poet laureate, will hit the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night to perform a brand-new poem in support of Vice ...

The plight of China’s delivery drivers is front-of-mind for the Chinese public. In August, CDT translated an account of one courier’s death in the summer heat, while a viral photograph of a Meituan ...