Poet Curt Curtin was well known in Worcester's poetry circles. His wife and collaborator, Dee O'Connor, talks about two ...

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

Simon Armitage has translated a number of medieval poems into modern English, including “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” “The Death of King Arthur” (an anonymous work, not Malory’s long prose ...

Cover and spread from “Pomada (Pomade)” (1913), with poem by Alexei Kruchenykh and lithography by Mikhail Larionov (all images courtesy The Getty Research Institute) Made from paper often stapled ...

It was Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s sharp-edged prose in Civil Lines: New Writing from India (published by Ravi Dayal) that I ...

For our Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf, we asked writers with deep ties to the city to name their favorite Los Angeles books across eight categories or genres. Based on 95 responses, here are the 14 most ...

Fred Lerdahl proposes a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.

April is National Poetry Month, so it seemed the perfect time to read poetry, which is not my usual genre. “The Lost Spells” by Robert Macfarlane seemed a good place to start with its small size and ...

After last year’s eccentric line-up, the £25,000 TS Eliot Prize (the UK’s most illustrious and most lucrative award for a book of verse) is back to business as usual. This is a sane list of mature ...

Enid Osborn Chaucer's Books will host local poets Enid Osborn and Daniel Thomas for a reading of their latest works, 6 p.m.