The Cure's music is littered with literary references, and we take a few down from the archives to analyse their poetic ...

“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its craft — and its wildness. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems don’t have ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any day? Whether it’s with a warm friendship quote or a thoughtful gift (like a book about friendship), there are so many ...

The American poet Violet Ranney Lang was born in 1924 and died in 1956, of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, at the age of thirty-two. Although last year marked the centenary of her birth, the occasion passed ...

An observational poet who focuses on imagery from nature, he taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts for more than 20 years. By Elizabeth A. Harris Arthur Sze was a freshman at the ...

Warning: This story contains a mention of attempted suicide. A literary magazine is printing a previously little-known work by the novelist Raymond Chandler — and it's not a hard-boiled detective ...

If NASA does find signs of life on its upcoming mission to Jupiter's orbit, the space agency wants to make sure that whatever's out there knows about us too. So NASA is etching a poem onto the side of ...