Charles Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion.

Once, poetry was ink spilling spontaneously and consciously onto parchment, then wrapped in the folds of intimacy, passed ...

It takes a bit of licence with the literal meaning but it works: I hate and I love ... which is that I am not naturally drawn to love poems, but rather to poems about love gone wrong (I doubt ...

“Wapsi” is perhaps one of the most overtly political poems in this collection. Thayil verbalises the violence, expressing the grammar of hate that the majoritarian Hindu right leverages to ...

Some songwriters started writing poetry before segueing into song. Others will even say that most of their songs started as a poem, or inspired by the work of classic poetry, or poets. Videos by ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee is best known for his novels and screenplays, but a new volume from The Works of ...

Pinky The Poet pulled up to Fresh Friday to perform "Societal Mechanisms" and to talk about what brought her there from ...

What sets spoken word artist and new Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley apart from others is her vulnerability and honesty ...

Good Girl,” by the German-born writer Aria Aber, asks what it means to want to belong to a society that wishes you harm.