Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

If the composition and dissemination of verse is as volatile as anything in the cosmos, the reading of it can also be as ...

Two decades of research into his family's place in Hawaiian history inspired a Michigan Tech professor of music to create the tone poem "Kalaupapa" — his first musical composition. Researchers often ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Many of her poems incorporate natural imagery—she herself created a famously exquisite garden in Lynchburg—but with an ironic tone ... short poem is a strong example of imagism, a movement ...

Stephen Wilkinson pays tribute to Britain’s nostalgic landscapes and ruins with a second collection of ambient tone poems indebted to the likes of Brian Eno and William Basinski. Brian Eno and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Where John Wilson goes, adventurous listeners would do well to follow. Showing an eclectic taste, Wilson ...

I wish the disparate pieces in Lady in the Lake came together a bit better, that it worked as an essay and a tone poem and a thriller on equal terms. But I still found its aspirations, unevenly ...