In a small garret room on the Isle Saint Louis in Paris, Charles Baudelaire sits and writes. He has a fuming pipe in his mouth, a book propped against his table, and there is a gleaming white goose ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. In celebration of National Poetry Month, here is a list of seven poems written by ...

Memorable lines: If I lost you/the air wouldn't move, nor the tree grow/Someone would pull the weed, my flower/The quiet wouldn't be yours. If I lost you/I'd have to ask the grass to let me sleep.

Ian Hamilton Finlay, interior of “4 Sails” (1966) (image courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay) Tug, fug, chug, glug — such are the rhyming words used by the writer and artist Ian Hamilton ...

Joseph Parisi, Editor of 100 Essential Modern Poems, and Kathleen Welton have selected these remarkable poems by women writing over the past 150 years in the English language. You will find Emily ...

Dan Chelotti's poem "Grieving in the Modern World," was published in his first book of poetry, "x," published by McSweeney's. Read the text of the poem below. We caught up with poet Dan Chelotti at ...

1. Sometimes I see a poem in Slate or another magazine, and it doesn’t do a thing for me. Half of the time I can’t figure out what it means—what is that all about? Generalizing won’t do. We’d have to ...