From booking the venue to building a crowd, Stephanie Barbé Hammer breaks down the surprisingly manageable art of hosting a poetry event.

Across cultures and centuries, heartbreak has consistently produced art. After death, people write elegies. After betrayal, we write songs. After war, exile, divorce ...

The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual. Our columnist asks what it means.

Now some authors tell me they’ve embraced AI as a “writing tool,” no different from spell-check or a laptop. The phrase is ...

On a Monday evening in March 1958, the poet Sylvia Plath wrote herself a note for the morning: “Must be up early, to laundry & steal more pink pads of paper tomorrow.” At the time, she was working as ...

A writer is crafting poems to strangers based on the Twitter DMs sent to her and they're truly beautiful. SEE ALSO: Artist 'fixes' sexual misconduct apology statements, turning them into painfully ...

The ambition of The Atlantic ’s founders was that this magazine would be the preeminent home for arguments about the American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. poems to read on a break The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you ...