Poetry
Poet and Musician Patti Smith’s Endless Search in Art and Life
The National Portrait Gallery’s senior historian David Ward takes a look at the rock 'n' roll legend's new memoir
Iraqi Museum Discovers Missing Lines From the Epic of Gilgamesh
One of the world's first great stories just got a new chapter
This Interactive Installation Rains a Poem Down on Viewers
Artists Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv wrote the software that drives an artwork, in which onlookers catch letters falling on a large screen
What Gives Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” Its Power?
A Smithsonian poet examines its message and how it encapsulates what its author was all about
Finding a Voice for Iranian Women
Artist Shirin Neshat uses Persian poetry to reveal the conflict between tradition and modernity
New Research May Solve a Mystery Behind Shakespeare’s Sonnets
The first printing of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets was dedicated to a “Mr. WH”—has a scholar finally identified him?
“Descent of Man”, a New Poem by Timothy Steele
The award-winning poet penned this new piece about evolution
Found in "Penny Papers" from the 1800s, A Lost Walt Whitman Poem
A professor at the University of Nebraska stumbled upon an ode to Whitman’s contemporary William Cullen Bryant
A Poem Dedicated to Earth in the Age of Humans
National Portrait Gallery historian David Ward writes a new ode for the Anthropocene
Kennewick Elegy
A new poem about the famous skeleton by Amit Majmudar
These Diaries, of Poet Siegfried Sassoon, Capture the Chaos of WWI
Siegfried Sassoon's poems captured life in the trenches of WWI
Write Like a Thespian With the Manipulus Vocabulorum, a 16th Century Rhyming Dictionary
The Manipulus Vocabulorum, from 1570, was the world's first rhyming dictionary
Maya Angelou Was One of the Most Influential Voices of Our Time
Maya Angelou was poet, novelist, educator, producer, actress, filmmaker, dancer and civil rights activist
The Pay Phone: A New Poem by Joshua Mehigan
A new poem by Joshua Mehigan
Café Future: A new poem by David Yezzi
A new poem by David Yezzi
How Did the Cruellest Month Come to Be the Perfect 30 Days to Celebrate Poetry?
A Smithsonian historian makes the case why springtime is the best time to reawaken a thirst for verse
Mark Twain’s Dream
A new poem by Carol Muske-Dukes
When Edgar Allan Poe Needed to Get Away, He Went to the Bronx
The author of 'The Raven' immortalized his small New York cottage in a lesser-known short story
The True Inner Beauty of Fishes
A biologist and a poet team up for a new exhibition at the Seattle Aquarium that features images of bleached and stained fish skeletons
A Close, Intimate Look at Walt Whitman
A haunting image captures America’s quintessential poet, writes author Mark Strand
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