Smithsonian Magazine

These 17th-Century Poems Painted Pictures on the Page—and Defied the Church of England’s Rejection of Religious Images

George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.
The New York Times

The Joy of Reading One Poem in Many Different Translations

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s ...
NPR

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, 2 new retrospectives to savor

With National Poetry Month comes spring flowers and some of the year's biggest poetry publications. And as April wraps up, we wanted to bring you two of our favorites — retrospective collections from ...
PBS

One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop

Katie Couric, Mary Chapin Carpenter and others explore Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art". “The art of losing isn’t hard to master,” Bishop wrote in the poem, "One Art", universally considered one of ...