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Arsh Raziuddin Ten Poetry Collections to Read Again and Again
Here is the verse that we just can’t get out of our heads.
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Getty ; The Atlantic What Poets Know That ChatGPT Doesn’t
There’s a reason the AI writes pretty awful verse.
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Devin Oktar Yalkin False Dawn
A poem for Sunday
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Katherine Wolkoff The Many Beginnings of Louise Glück
The American poet, who was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, examines our compulsion to tell the same stories, again and again.
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Dennis Stock / Magnum A Poem for Sunday
After Canto XIII of the Inferno
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Matthew Valentine W. S. Merwin’s Poems of Ethical Care
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, who died last week at 91, found an enduring language to express his anguish at what human exploitation has done to the world.
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Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post / Getty Remembering Donald Hall, a Poet of Love and Loss
The writer, who died at 89, invested common words with the power of a constructive, shaping force.
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Lisi Niesner / Reuters When Hamlet Starts Showing Up in Federal Court
A Pennsylvania judge’s decision to quote Shakespeare in a recent ruling doubled as a meaningful, yet still ambiguous, interpretation of cultural chaos.
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Shugg Brothers / Library of Congress The Story Behind the Poem on the Statue of Liberty
Emma Lazarus’s Petrarchan sonnet is an awkward vehicle for defenses of American greatness—perhaps because so many of those who quote it miss its true meaning.
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Frank Franklin II / AP The New Intellectuals
Political wars on college campuses aren’t really about free speech. They’re about what it means to be a student.
