Amanda Larson is the author of the poetry collection Gut. She teaches writing at Fordham University and the City University ...

Aryan Poduri's book, "GOAT Coder," teaches children how to code through hands-on exercises and uncomplicated explanations.

I received a Facebook message that made me think even more about being kind to folks. The message was from the 1983 film ...

Australia’s history is full of eccentric MPs, including serial quiz show contestants and a prime minister who pumped iron for ...

Fiona Benson’s Midden Witch is a ferocious and frightening book that illuminates those women – often healers, artists – termed ‘witch’. In Benson’s poems a gentle spirit somehow coexists with an ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, this is our pick of the best poetry books of the year. Whether you’re a ...

Wellwater is a poetry collection which explores the intersection of cultural, economic and personal ideas of value, addressing aging, housing and environmental and economic crises. Celebrating ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. With apologies to T. S. Eliot, December might be the cruelest month — at least for publishing. As imprints focus ...

Patricia Smith, an acclaimed poet and professor of creative writing at Princeton, received the National Book Award for Poetry on Friday for her new poetry collection, “The Intentions of Thunder: New ...

Poet Jane Hirshfield, who will be the keynote speaker at the 2026 Kachemak Bay Writers Conference, has said this: “What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...