Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds; While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads The most famous of all Christmas poems, “A Visit from St.

Molly McGovern, the daughter of U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, died unexpectedly while on a trip in Italy, the Massachusetts ...

Though a few monologues appear on his studio albums, the Christmas poem is a closer kin to the homespun readings that pepper some 700 reels of tape that Armstrong recorded for himself. Amid taped ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

For my project, I also faced a dilemma: I no longer had access to one of my main interview subjects. I’d devised this art project as a way of understanding myself and my family. Suddenly, I didn’t ...

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It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Alfred Bagdasarian, lovingly known as Ālik (Ալիք) was born on Armenian Christmas Day, January 6, 1937, in Yerevan, Armenia.

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

And we’re celebrating big time. Along with birthday parties and birthday messages, we’re looking back at our favorite content from the past ten years. April is National Poetry Month. So, we thought it ...