Two Cincinnati poets captured the spirit of the Civil War. Now, an Anderson Township man wants to find the poem that reflects ...

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 ...

When C.D. Wright died Jan. 12, American poetry lost one of the great ones, one of the figures who changed what the language can do, one of the writers whose lines and titles, sentences and similes are ...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall, a candid, unaffected writer who examined love, loss and rural American life, died Saturday at the age of 89. Hall said he saw no reason to spend life writing ...

Jane Hirshfield, the award-winning poet, translator and essayist, has lofty ideas about poetry’s role in human lives, which she sets out in her new book about poetry, “Ten Windows: How Great Poems ...

LOUIS UNTERMEYER, who is rapidly taking all poetry to be bis province, has created an anthology which is more than an anthology. Besides containing nearly one thousand poems or scraps of poems from ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee? With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by the Sun’s poetry editor, Joseph ...

As we continue the Sun’s week-long festival, celebrating Rhina Espaillat’s poetry in this year of her ninetieth birthday, we shift gears today from the sonnet to a form that loosens its hold on rhyme ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this ...

To celebrate Black History Month, we commissioned a poem by Lemn Sissay OBE to reflect the club’s journey from Maine Road to ...