Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis poet, wife and mother, was shot and killed Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, setting off nationwide protests over the ...

For those of us north of the equator, winter officially arrived last week. The early darkness and the chill in the air demand a change in our habits. For many, the season provokes an unmistakable turn ...

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For centuries, the Iliad and Odyssey were more than literature to the Greeks: they were formative texts, the stories through which young minds learned what it meant to be human, to be heroic, to be ...

Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent collection, “The New Economy,” was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry, and one of their poems was included in “A Century of Poetry in The New ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, this is our pick of the best poetry books of the year. Whether you’re a ...

After Rashan Brown finished his first major gig as a spoken-word poet — opening for bestselling author and poet Rupi Kaur at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, in December 2022 — he stepped ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

Wisława Szymborska. Ecco, July 7 ($18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-349491-6) Showcasing works that deal with intellectual and existential questions, this collection also includes Szymborska’s 1996 Nobel ...

It turns out that all you need to get past an AI chatbot's guardrails is a little bit of creativity. In a study published by Icaro Lab called "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak ...