Turning poetic pens into megaphones, hip hop has always announced the realities of environments where poverty, crime, ...

Neelam Saxena Chandra launched her new poetry collection, 'Rhyming with Life', at a grand literary event at Mumbai's NCPA.

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

It’s about what it means to be a young person in a generation that is going to end, and is currently changing the world,” the lauded poet said of her new book.

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.

The speaker is left in awe at the dazzling force of this inanimate object, and feels a strong desire to “change [his] life.” The poem reads as a sort of prayer in which the speaker seeks a connection ...

Throughout, we see the development of a poetic voice, as she moves from traditional rhyme-schemes ... Her poems read, at their best, like illuminations, transfiguring her life again and again.