Books & the Arts / An inheritor of a distinct tradition that stretched back to Coleridge and Emerson, Johnson’s naturalistic poetry was immersive and intimate all at once. David B. Hobbs Even those of ...

I Met My Younger Self For Coffee is a poem by Jennae Cecelia that inspired a TikTok trend in February 2025. Cecelia released the poem as a video on her TikTok page, @jennaececelia, early that month ...

Perhaps Rochester over-reached, trying too hard to be “edgy” when it turned the Peace Plaza into an abstract poem. But perhaps the poem was just a bit too large. Perhaps, as we learn in the ...

and a poem of longing gives the woozy instrumentation a sentimental edge. Richard Dawson’s brand of psychedelic folk has proven to be a consistently evolving entity throughout the artist’s career, and ...

The Curse of Akkad, a contemporary poem that purportedly tells of the empire’s decline ... for more than three millennia before collapsing in what has been called “one of the most obvious and ...