Poet Amanda Gorman on her work, 'For Renee Nicole Good'

Poet Amanda Gorman wrote a poem for Renee Good, who was killed by an ICE officer this week. Gorman reads her poem and speaks ...

What Kind of Lover Are You? This Poem Might Have the Answer.

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...
Jewish Journal

My Name Is Your Name – A poem for Parsha Shemot

As moviegoers flock to watch “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” the newest exploits of the Na’vi tribe, it’s worth revisiting a ...
The New Yorker

“Pale Fire,” the Poem: Does It Stand Alone as a Masterpiece? | The New Yorker

Some books, like “The Institutionalist Approach to Public Utility Regulation,” defeat commentary; others, like “Ulysses,” invite it. “Pale Fire,” Vladimir Nabokov’s resplendent rare bird of a novel, ...
The New Yorker

The Strange Power of a Medieval Poem About the Death of a Child

The medieval poem “Pearl” was written by someone whose identity we do not know, and is set mostly within a dream. Neither of these facts is unusual in medieval poetry. Authorship is often unclear for ...