Sharon Kernot knows how to make a pressing, potent, aching song from a stanza of free verse lines – and how to make a page of ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a team of researchers discovered a new species of monkey and formed deep friendship along the way.

Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the things we’re grateful for is a time-honored tradition, but it can be hard to put those feelings into words.

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

The Nation welcomes unsolicited poetry submissions. You may send up to three poems at a time, but no more than 6 poems a year. No previously published works, please. Submissions can be sent via ...