Release your emotions, cry a little, and then heal. Poetry is all about sharing feelings and emotion and is one of the greatest forms of literature to read during hard times. Poems about death can ...

Paul Celan, Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry, A Bilingual Edition, translated by Pierre Joris and with commentary by Pierre Joris and Barbara Wiedemann, 2020 (image ...

Ellen Burstyn is on a mission to get people who don't like poetry to see the art form in a new light with her new book ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. Early-career poetry poses ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This year I’ve spent my working hours in a distant American past, ...