We use language constantly… texting, thinking, venting, overthinking. But most of the time, we’re using words to get through the day, not to check in with ourselves. You might be saying “I’m fine” out ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

As editors who review poetry for The Atlantic, we read a lot of poems. Each week, there are new PDFs in our inboxes; our desks are covered with chaotic piles of books we’ve yet to crack open, and our ...

Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement.

Porsha Olayiwola remembers the moment she was inspired her to write her first one-woman show. It was 2012 and she had just finished a poetry reading at a college. A man with a long, blonde and shaggy ...

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman, who captured the world's attention when she read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, will be published December 7. Gorman’s ...

Poetry provides all these treasures and, even if we accept one of them, it restores our ability to cope, and our sense of ...

“In the particular is the universal,” said James Joyce. In Forest of Noise, the particular is the Israel-Hamas war and the suffering of the Gazans, as recorded by the award-winning poet Mosab Abu Toha ...