This festival, held twelve days after Christmas, principally commemorates the journey of the three wise men (or Magi) to witness the revelation of Christ to the world. This, in turn, reminded me of ...

Rutzel’s poetry defies convention. Some verses rhyme, others don’t—but all pulse with honesty, humor, and a deep sense of ...

I’m a woman without a calculator. I don’t take off the underwear I was wearing, but I take everything else off. That’s because I’m too dirty to give it to you…. My dad was like that too. He’d give ...

The Poetry Brothel Chicago is starting 2026 with DEVOTION – where our poets will beckon your deepest desires, those held to ...

These dust particles, finer than sand grains, originate from cometary tails and asteroid collisions, posing unseen risks to ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent collection, “The New Economy,” was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry, and one of their poems was included in “A Century of Poetry in The New ...

Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poem that ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, this is our pick of the best poetry books of the year. Whether you’re a ...