During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

In a preface to the collection Contemporary Catholic Poetry: An Anthology, the editors April Lindner and Ryan Wilson discuss their criteria for measuring, more or less, what kind of Catholic a poet ...

—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

It is useful to think of the literature of Ancient Greece in three phases. It begins with Homer and Hesiod, masters of the “epic” poem, and ends with the dramatists and the prose of the philosophers ...

Every week, poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive. This time he selects ‘Lyrical Ballads’, a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in ...

In honor of National Poetry Month, Farai Chideya talks with Al Young, California's Poet Laureate, about the art and joys of poetry. His latest book, Something About the Blues, includes a CD of Young ...

When most people think of fantasy, they picture sprawling wars, fire-breathing dragons, and quests for crowns. But another branch of the genre has been quietly flourishing: lyrical fantasy. These are ...