Across every section of the Pleiad, our staff works to recognize the various forms of expression that shape how we understand the world around us. Poetry, in particular, offers a space where language ...

Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize A poem about language, love, and processing distressing world events has won this ...

Wichita State English professor and poet Adam Scheffler knows you might not like poetry. But he thinks reading a nearly 200-year-old Shelley sonnet might make you change your mind. He tells us why in ...

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as opposites—one deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet ...

Stand by for another lesson in the enduring relevance of great literature. Readers may, or may not, recall how in my column of June 1,2018, I elucidated the poem “Ozymandias” (1818) by Percy Bysshe ...

Two time-stamped poems are taken from a book-length sequence tracking the human moments of a factory night shift 01.29 When we look up at stars on break we see only stars behind the exhaled Milky Way ...

Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, is about to become the latest example of what you might call the Trump Boomerang Effect. Shortly before airtime on Sunday night, Weiss pulled a piece ...

Today on Variant, we break down the comic book Origin of Ozymandias from "Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #1"! Recommended Episode: History of Dr. Manhattan - Subscribe to the Podcast YouTube Channel: ...