Venice: Ildikó Enyedi's trio of tales about plant communication across the ages provides few thrills but some elegant ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

Twitchell said he and Miriah had committed to having a “one parent, one language” household, meaning one parent would speak to the children only in Tlingit while the other speaks in English ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

In this English article, learn about the language and subjects used in poetry.

This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as If You Can Correctly Pronounce Every Word in This 1920s Poem, You're Among the English-Speaking Elite.

Bloom made his critical reputation with a book called The Anxiety of Influence, where he argued that poetry proceeds on the misreadings by strong poets of their predecessors. In this massive ...