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Write an ode to misfits. A poem of praise for those who don’t belong here or there. A lyric ballad for the children of ...

Fazal Baloch's translation, In Every Verse for You, carries Balochi poet Mubarak Qazi’s poetic fire across languages.

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

We open Roy’s A Blur of a Woman and see contemporary poetry at its best ... A firm believer in the therapeutic power of verse, Roy is one of those rare poets for whom our eager ears wait ...

Frost’s approachable verse and appealing rural subjects brought him legions of admirers. His personal life was shot through ...

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

A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of Massachusetts in innumerable ways," Governor Maura Healey wrote in an executive order ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...

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

At the New Delhi World Book Fair 2025, six contemporary poets explore how words and visuals merge to reshape poetic expression.