Rachel Richardson is the author of three books of poetry, Smother (W. W. Norton & Co., 2025), and Hundred-Year Wave (2016) ...

The Liverpool poet Brian Patten has been described as a "force of nature" after his death at the age of 79. Fellow Merseyside ...

Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs its depths. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott You can hear a reading of this poem ...

What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Mountain and the ...

A former prisoner has spoken about the transformative impact of poetry on his life. Will Pendray spent four years in prison ...

Sze is a poet with a lot of acclaim — he's won the National Book Award, was a Guggenheim fellow and was a finalist for the ...