Guggenheim Gets New Chairman, and Second Ever Black Female Trustee

‭The museum’s board will be led by the financier J. Tomilson Hill and joined by the poet Claudia Rankine.

Kevin Young’s Latest Poems Are at Play Among the Dead

His new collection, “Stones,” is about family, about death and about how families absorb and repurpose loss; the stones here bear names and life spans.

Joseph Brodsky Slept Here. The Great Poet’s Cranky Neighbor Couldn’t Care Less.

After a decades-long standoff with the last resident of a communal apartment, a private museum has finally opened in Brodsky’s shared home in St. Petersburg, a rare grass-roots victory in Russia.

A Cautionary Tale for the New Roaring Twenties

What does “The Wild Party,” an obscure but chillingly prescient book-length poem from the twilight of the Jazz Age, tell us about our own era?

As Kashmir Crackdown Endures, Poets Stifle Their Verses

Harsh measures against dissent have trickled down to practitioners of the region’s poetic traditions, with many saying they have been told to stop.

The Poetic Justice of Amanda Gorman’s Estée Lauder Contract

The inside story of how it happened and why it matters.

Maggie Nelson Wants to Redefine ‘Freedom’

In her new essay collection, the writer wants to enunciate all the meanings and manifestations of the word that our current conversation obscures.

Opinion | Why Poetry Is So Crucial Right Now

It helps us pay attention to the things that matter.

The Victorian Poet Who Sought to Capture Everyday Life in Her Verse

“Two-Way Mirror,” by Fiona Sampson, is the first biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in many years. It aims to restore the now overlooked poet’s reputation as a major innovator.

Jean Breeze, First Woman of Dub Poetry, Dies at 65

She was known for the passion of her performances, the raw honesty of her stories and her use of Jamaica’s lyrical vernacular.

54 Years Late, Dorothy Parker Finally Gets a Tombstone

The beloved author wrote many witty epitaphs but never suggested where her remains should end up. Her fans helped complete her ashes’ odyssey.

My Secret Weapon Against the Attention Economy

When you reread the same poem over and over again, you stop scrolling along the surface and dive deep beneath it.

A Pianist Finds Inspiration to Write Again

Evgeny Kissin, who has made a career of performing, was surprised to find himself drawn once more to composing.

Video: Read T a Poem | Ruby Ibarra

The rapper Ruby Ibarra reads the poem “Track: ‘A Little Bit of Ecstasy,’ Jocelyn Enriquez (1997)” by Barbara Jane Reyes.

5 Things to Do This Weekend

Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.

Stephen Dunn, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 82

His work, one reviewer said, “has an out-of-time quality, like a conversation with your smartest friend during a long-distance road trip.” In 2001 he won the Pulitzer Prize.

Poem: ‘There is no news from Auschwitz’

This poem by Sonia Sanchez will astonish and alarm you.

Robert Hollander, Who Led Readers Into ‘The Inferno,’ Dies at 87

He and his wife wrote an admired translation of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” and he began an innovative project to digitize centuries of scholarly commentary.

Friederike Mayröcker, Grande Dame in German Literature, Dies at 96

An Austrian, she was among the most decorated German-language poets of the postwar period, producing a large body of daring work.

Poem: Len Bias, a Bouquet of Flowers, and Ms. Brooks

A moment between legends.