Few modern poets are as readily quotable - and indeed as widely quoted - as Mary Oliver, the late Pulitzer winner whose ...

This month, poet Paula Bohince chose A Few Ordinary Parallel Lines (2022–25), by Zhao Yao. One pathway towards reading the works in Zhao Yao’s minimalist series is in their individual titles, which, ...

In some remote corners of East China's Luxi Plain and Southwest China's Hengduan Mountains, there are schools where teachers and students are embracing poetry deeper. There, with a pen and a sheet of ...

On the eve of July 4, 1876, a New York broadside marked America’s centennial with something extraordinary: the first Hebrew ...

In June 2026, we will publish an anthology of writing from 177 of these young people in the “1455 Young Poets Anthology.” More than 300 young people submitted their poems to a nonprofit I run, called ...

Singer Ray Charles released his moving version of "America the Beautiful" in 1972, pouring his soul into the classic American ...

The 900-pound America's Time Capsule will be buried in Philadelphia on July 4. All 50 states, five territories and some ...

Let our Founding Fathers take the back seat for a change.

Archaeologists working at the Reshui cemetery in Dulan County, Qinghai Province, recovered fragments of gold armor from a ...

Christian Wiman is both a magnificent poet and one of the foremost poets of the Christian faith. For 10 years he edited ...

Present-day LLMs, such as ChatGPT and Claude, can perform complex tasks, such as writing poetry and solving difficult algebra ...