Last week, Ian Segal, of the poetry department, exchanged e-mails with Barbara Ras, whose poem "Washing the Elephant" recently appeared in the magazine.Ras's new collection, "The Last Skin," will ...

Poor Elephant, always walking hoping one day he ... she is the recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2019. The award has been granted since 1934 to a poet from the UK or Commonwealth.

John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1869) was a New England poet and comic wit — of the kind much invited to be an after-dinner speaker. James Thomas Fields remains the model of such figures in that era (and so ...

Inspired by a Rumi poem based on the parable of “The Blind Men and the Elephant,” Javaherbin offers a lively take on a classic story about the folly of a limited perspective. When a merchant ...