This” was something called an interactive concert featuring “The Second Coming,” Irish poet William Butler Yeats’s ode to chaos. It felt like a weird, random request, but we’d been trying for months ...

Two time-stamped poems are taken from a book-length sequence tracking the human moments of a factory night shift 01.29 When we look up at stars on break we see only stars behind the exhaled Milky Way ...

The formidable novelist and philosopher, who died in 1999, thought her poetry was mediocre. It’s not. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

Afterburn by Blake Morrison; Into the Hush by Arthur Sze; Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf; Only Sing by John Berryman; Lamping Wild Rabbits by Simon Maddrell; Dream Latitudes by Alia Kobuszko Afterburn ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. She rarely talks about it at length in public, but Virginia’s new Lt ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

Wisława Szymborska. Ecco, July 7 ($18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-349491-6) Showcasing works that deal with intellectual and existential questions, this collection also includes Szymborska’s 1996 Nobel ...

You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. The study, "Adversarial Poetry as a ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

In our fraught modern world, poets are rarely celebrities. But celebrities sometimes get their poems published. Certain people (disgruntled scribblers) may scoff at this. What do Megan Fox, James ...

Zach Cregger’s Weapons movie is a lot of things. It’s a fascinating look at some colorful characters who make up a little town. It’s really scary and intense. And then, suddenly, it’s also really ...