Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection of poems that included the well-thought-out 403-line poem “Tamerlane,” which ...

Alright, Bachelor Nation, just two weeks after that disaster of a Bachelorette finale, we’re back at the mansion again for ...

A host of sexy seniors (including Kelsey's dad) did their best to impress Joan Vassos, the first-ever Golden Bachelorette.

Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page. He explores what tone and timbre can bring to poems when performing or ...

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Haunting Olivia,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Love Letter ...

Dammit, this show has no right to be as interesting and compelling ... not entirely — but rather the “capital-R ‘Romance’ of classic poetry and paintings” sense. After so many weeks of brutality and ...

After she reached safety in a village away from the combat zone, she poured her emotions into a poem, typing out verses on her phone. Yaryna Chornohuz, a Ukrainian poet and combat medic ...

Amanda Gorman, a poet and activist who in 2021 made history as the youngest poet ever to read at a presidential inauguration, debuted a new poem on the third night of the Democratic convention ...

Poet and activist Amanda Gorman returned to the national political stage on Aug. 21, performing her spoken-word poem "This Sacred Scene" at the Democratic National Convention. Gorman told Vanity ...

Speaking to Vanity Fair exclusively as she arrived at the United Center in Chicago to rehearse, Gorman shared her nerves ahead of debuting the poem, “This Sacred Scene.” “It’s such a big ...

Amanda Gorman, the country's first national youth poet laureate, will hit the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night to perform a brand-new poem in support of Vice ...