Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Pulkit Samrat marked International Women’s Day with a heartfelt poem, celebrating the strength, sacrifices, and power of women.

Explore the powerful poetry of former New America Fellows Sarah Kay and Clint Smith, reflecting on culture and the transformative power of words.

A woman who has taught poetry in Salinas Valley ... and the transformative power of poetry. She is the author of “Inconsolable Objects and “Punishment” and her poetry and essays have been ...

Thunder Perfect Mind' is a marvelous, strange poem. It speaks in the voice of a feminine divine power, but one that unites all opposites. One that is not only speaking in women, but also in all ...

Poetry is a vessel for greater understanding in the same way that a voice is a vessel for language,” Price said.

Burns wrote 'The Rights of Women' for Miss Louisa Fontenelle ... to be performed at a benefit night. In this poem Burns communicates the idea that the ruling class would benefit from turning ...

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve ...