Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

Being a woman with a voice in Ethiopia has never been simple, especially when that voice chooses to express itself through writing and journalism. Women's contributions have often been limited, ...

Onam is Kerala’s living poem – one where myth, memory, and modernity come together in a timeless cultural embrace. In honouring Mahabali’s legacy, we also celebrate what is best in us: compassion, ...

Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs ...

Reminiscent of “Starting From San Francisco,” one of the first books by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco is also where Victor Depta spent some of his early years and where this 2024 reprint of his ...

Mack, a poet and co-founder of Loblolly Press, credits the experience for inspiring his recently published chapbook, Beasts of Chase, a collection of poems that explores the history of bear hunting in ...

SIDDHARTHA Menon’s new poetry collection Lone Pine (Hachette India) carries 68 poems, most of which have titles inspired by the natural world: leaves, fog, river mornings. Topography teaches the poet ...