Mexico’s Supreme Court has ordered Sergio Witz, a poet and professor of literature, to face trial on charges of “offending national symbols” after he published a protest poem that proposed using the ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This week marks 157 years since Walt Whitman’s poetry first appeared in ...

(NEW YORK) -- "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." These iconic words from "The New Colossus" — the 1883 poem written by American Emma Lazarus are etched in ...

POEMS convey thoughts in deeper and more concise forms. They are feelings of the inner mind that pierce the heart. The words are naturally chosen for proper effects and to also convey the appropriate ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

The original title of this year’s Foley poetry contest winner was, “After the Molt, the King of Crabs, Feeling Tender, Addresses the Folk.” On first reading, the poem seemed messy, too strange, ...

As far as classic Christmas Eve activities go, nothing beats reading the “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem with a ...