Robert Krut grew up devouring books by Raymond Carver and the Beat Poets, heavily influenced by the short story writer’s sparse prose and the latters’ collective bent toward romantic fearlessness. To ...

Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a group continues his work on a new medium -- the internet.

Artists and poets have long been inspired by the mathematical patterns found in nature—for instance, the remarkable fact that a sunflower's seeds follow the Fibonacci sequence. But there are myriad ...

A new scholarly study reveals how the Nobel-winning poet’s verse reflects a profoundly sacramental imagination.

Short, straightforward poetry is TikTok’s latest literary trend, attracting plenty of fans and critics alike, though some poets say the popularity of poems as short as one sentence long has made it ...

In his new book, New York City Poet Pierre Gervois delivers a provocative and searing indictment of the relations of power in today’s divided America. Oct. 9, 2025 / PRZen / NEW YORK — Super Leftist ...

Poetry provides all these treasures and, even if we accept one of them, it restores our ability to cope, and our sense of ...

In half a decade, the number of U.S. adults who are reading poetry has nearly doubled. That's according to the results of a new survey by the National Endowment for the Arts, which announced Thursday ...