"He's very much a Mayo poet, even though he's nationally and internationally acknowledged and renowned as a poet of the ...

Here in April, celebrated annually as National Poetry Month, I’ve been wondering: Is there a truly great poem about the Mississippi River? The question first came to mind last December when a copy of ...

Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...

A 9-11 memory and poem, from Sister Cashel Weiler of Rochester: Sept. 11, 2001 was my first day of a fall vacation. I live in Saint Marys Convent in Rochester, and glancing at the TV, I thought it was ...

What holds a country together? What deepens a culture rooted in memory? What traditions give life and meaning to a people? Where do dreams come from that move a people forward? Memories stored in mind ...

Plenitude The housing crisis peeps through certain poems (“our young who cannot afford a home: there is no nest” Lustrous ...

‘Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: / ‘God is not dead, nor doth He sleep,’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow proclaims in the tremendous final verse of his 1865 Civil War poem “Christmas Bells.” We ...

A light touch and a wry tone are what readers typically remember from the poetry of Alexander Pope (1688–1744), but he was absurdly talented, a man from whom words poured out in meter and rhyme as ...

On July 14, beloved spoken-word poet Andrea Gibson died of cancer at their home in Colorado at age 49. A powerful voice in queer letters, Gibson innately understood poetry to be a vehicle for advocacy ...

YADKIN COUNTY, N.C. -- The Highway Patrol is honoring a trooper who was killed in the line of duty in a special way. Related: Surry County Trooper Dies in Fiery Wreck on I-77 South in Yadkin Co.