In her latest collection, the Vermont poet laureate muses on life, death and love, and the power of even mundane physical objects to sustain memories.

Socrates, a pivotal figure in ancient Athens, profoundly influenced Western philosophy. His method of questioning challenged conventional wisdom, promoting intellectual humility. He believed true ...

Philosophy professors say Texas A&M's decision to restrict Plato readings in a core course reflects a troubling misunderstanding of academic freedom and the purpose of higher education.

The Bonfire Party by Sean O’Brien; Plastic by Matthew Rice; Retablo for a Door by Michelle Penn; Jonah and Me by John F Deane; Intimate Architecture by Tess Jolly The Bonfire Party by Sean O’Brien ...

For centuries, the Iliad and Odyssey were more than literature to the Greeks: they were formative texts, the stories through which young minds learned what it meant to be human, to be heroic, to be ...

Employees, poets, and other community members at the Poetry Foundation are protesting the organization’s decision, announced on December 1, to phase out all public programming, beginning in the new ...

Fiona Benson’s Midden Witch is a ferocious and frightening book that illuminates those women – often healers, artists – termed ‘witch’. In Benson’s poems a gentle spirit somehow coexists with an ...

From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran Many of 2025’s most notable collections have been powered by a spirit of ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

Across 25 leading AI models, 62% of poetic prompts produced unsafe responses, with some models responding to nearly all of them. Researchers in Italy have discovered that writing harmful prompts in ...