M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...

The impact of of Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s 2024-25 department plan, released about a year ago, are only now starting to become clear in cities across Canada. Whether it’s colleges ...

"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...

Rochester artist Ayub HajiOmar has built a career weaving images with Islamic verse. His latest commission was a series of ...

Science in meter and verse ...

I had a surprisingly positive middle school English experience. I remember my teacher holding “A Separate Peace” aloft, ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...