One of the most famous poems ever written and arguably the most significant 20th-century work of poetry, “The Wasteland” is T.S. Eliot’s 1922 masterpiece.

The greatest poetry books ever written. I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever ...

The word poetry typically sparks thoughts of love poems and doesn’t necessarily bring fun and laughter to mind. The exception ...

The preference the study reveals for AI poetry over that written by humans does not suggest that machine poems are of a higher quality. The AI models can produce poems that rate well on certain ...

The best way to describe Limón’s poetry, perhaps, is saturated: Emotions run through it undiluted and her language is simple, yet full to bursting. Bright Dead Things is laced with these qualities.

As editors who review poetry for The Atlantic, we read a lot of poems.Each week, there are new PDFs in our inboxes; our desks are covered with chaotic piles of books we’ve yet to crack open, and ...

From a new translation of Homer’s “Iliad” to the strange new world of AI verse, it’s been an epic year for the art of poetry. Only a god or an algorithm would presume to list the best ...

Most of his greatest poems come from these last 15 years of his life. He wants to be a good Taoist and accept the return to existence-tissue gracefully, but his human body doesn’t want to die.