April showers bring May flowers, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. But for those of you disheartened by flowerbeds still too puddle-muddied to bloom, there’s no need to count the days ...

Emily Pauline Johnson (1861–1913) — known also by her Mohawk stage name, Tekahionwake — toured her native Canada and the United States as what we might now call a performance poet, whose act turned on ...

If we’re going to celebrate literary birthdays in February, it’s hard to dodge the birthday of James Joyce (1882–1941) on February 2, if only because Joyce is, well, Joyce. Over the past few decades, ...

The Velvet Underground, it has been said, did not sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started his or her own band. James Schuyler was, perhaps, the Velvet Underground of verse: ...

(Pratishtha Pandya is a bilingual poet and translator working across Gujarati and English. The first collection of her Gujarati poems Lalala... has been published by Navjeevan Samprat. She currently ...

I fled a burning archipelago in the rain, on my mother’s back, in another war or perishes in a thicket of words. And so, speaking as one of the flowers, I’ll seek rest in falling. I’ll seek asylum in ...

Len Bias dropped buckets in Frederick Douglass’s home state, where I was raised. And it’s startling to find that one night, instead of softly putting that orange globe in the bucket, he was handing ...

Poetry forever grants us leaps and blurs. Sometimes it’s not enough to be where we are. Sometimes we need to be everywhere: present with the lost, held by transient blossoms. Jan Beatty’s new poems in ...

Those who dread signing cards need not fear, a flower delivery service has launched an AI bot that can write poems and songs for Mother’s Day. Dubbed the "MomVerse," 1-800-FLOWERS.COM says the chatbot ...

The Velvet Underground, it has been said, did not sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started his or her own band. James Schuyler was, perhaps, the Velvet Underground of verse: ...