Poetry that evokes vivid mental imagery is more aesthetically pleasing to readers, say scientists who have found several factors that make people like poems. Aesthetics, the underpinnings of what we ...

‘There is currently an exciting resurgence of enthusiasm for poetry, and it comes not a moment too soon,” says Alexandrina Sergio, who served as Glastonbury’s first poet laureate. The sizable ...

This summer, we selected six poems by women and asked photographers to let the poems inspire them. Read more about the photography. This drive along the road the bend the banks behind the wheel I am ...

I burned through Philomath: Poems, the debut poetry collection from Devon Walker-Figueroa, in one sitting. A narrative coming-of-age poetry collection laced with searing imagery and gut-punch ...