Among the knotty metaphysical poets who populated the first literary generation after Shakespeare, John Donne (1572–1631) is easily the knottiest. His poems are marvels of mental engineering, ...

The unnamed wife of Manoah is the real story.

you may wonder how to identify them. Treat everyone you meet as if they are one and you’ll be right every time. I’d like to send angels to where all the wars are to distract the perpetrators with ...

Each of the past several years, Columbia’s poet laureate, Ed Madden, has prepared a poem in honor of the city to read before Mayor Steve Benjamin’s agenda-setting State of the City address. As ...