That terrifying chant in the '28 Years Later' trailer and film is a 122-year-old Rudyard Kipling poem: director Danny Boyle explains why it's there.

Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already learned.

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times ...

On the hunt for the holy grail? The Peculiar Poem in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 apparently points the way, but it's quite vague and hard to decipher.

"Let Them,” a poem by Cassie Phillips, spoke directly to my heart in a healing way.

You've heard of the "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?

The haibun literary form dates back to the 15th century master Basho. Already well-known for his haiku, Basho began publishing journals of his travels interspersed with the short-form poems, and ...

The haibun literary form dates back to the 15th century master Basho. Already well-known for his haiku, Basho began publishing journals of his travels interspersed with the short-form poems, and the ...