These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

Many people reacted positively to this work, leaving in the comments their hopes that they would no longer be judged by their accent and would be able to follow the “Latin American dream.” Here you ...

One poem visually documents maternal mortality rates ... and how can we change them and make them better?” she says. But the dream of writing was hard to let go of. By the time Muschenetz ...

Camille Ralphs is poetry editor at the TLS. Her latest book is After You Were, I Am (Faber, 2024).

This poem is also the opposite of everything I ... That’s certainly true if we encounter “my dreams, my works” on its own, as we do here. Like any good sonnet, it stands alone.

A story of immigration and assimilation spanning three generations, Stories Told in a Lost Tongue is an exploration of ...

More than just a place to live in, the house is a poem of life. The dream home, built in a contemporary style, is infused ...