By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

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

Beginning with her self-titled debut album in 2008, Taylor Swift has made allusions to literary themes and characters in many of her songs.

Contemporary ballet ‘Heo Nan Seol Heon’ at Gangneung Arts Center this week Heo Nanseolheon (1563–1589), whose real name was ...

New research has found that people are unable to determine whether a poem was written by a human or generated by AI. Despite ...

Sonia Sanchez is one of the most powerful voices in American poetry, a literary giant whose work spans decades of activism, ...

In “The Bitterroot Path,” one watches her move from lyric’s uncontaminated source of wonder in its Romantic roots to ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

Hidden away on NASA's Golden Record, an interstellar archive of music, image and sound, there is a recording of a poem by Charles Baudelaire, Élévation, which describes the astral ascent of the soul.

While performing their 2004 hit “American Idiot” at the Calabash South Africa festival in Johannesburg on Jan. 19, the rock band’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, swapped the lyric “I’m not a part of ...

“I’m not a part of the Elon agenda,” Armstrong sang, switching the original lyric: “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.” Armstrong has been known to switch up the lyrics to the ...