Poetry matters. Two new books remind us why. Edward Hirsch’s “The Heart of American Poetry” and Brad Leithauser’s “Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry” give reason to slow down ...

Bimal Roy's 'Devdas', a 1955 classic, is a poignant masterpiece of Indian cinema. Dilip Kumar's portrayal of a doomed lover remains unmatched.

Born in New York City in 1779, Clement Clarke Moore became a noted lecturer and writer. Yet his life would merit little more than a footnote in New York’s history, except for the one poem for ...

Poem of the Day: ‘Immortality’ George William Russell’s poem reflects that curiously delicate sadness of his era, which no other time in English poetry has ever quite matched. George William Russell, ...

Incorporating a short poem into your wedding not only beautifies the ceremony but also leaves an indelible mark on the hearts ...

It’s one of the most famous poems in American history. But David Orr, poetry columnist for The New York Times, says “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is widely misinterpreted. Jeffrey ...

IN “Instrument of Immortality,” the opening Dante’s type long poem, in Umar Yogiza Jr’s first collection, Instrument of Immortality, the author-like narrator asserts: “I am the hidden ...

Louise Glück, the former US Poet Laureate and 2020 Nobel Prize awardee whose deceptively simple poems considered and revealed truths about love, loss and survival, has died at 80.

FICTION Toward Eternity: A Novel by Anton Hur. HarperVia, 2024 ($26.99) Anton Hur’s Toward Eternity blends the music of science and of poetry to tell a tale of future love, war, and tiny robots ...