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

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

Poetry provides all these treasures and, even if we accept one of them, it restores our ability to cope, and our sense of ...

Every Doors album has at least one masterpiece, and tracks like "The End" and "Waiting for the Sun" are among the best of ...

Yexandra "Yex" Diaz and Henry Mead were crowned New Haven poet laureate and youth poet laureate, respectively, at Kulturally Lit’s sixth annual LIT Fest Saturday afternoon.

Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement.

In Crito and Phaedo, Plato takes this alliance between Socrates and poetry further, attributing to Socrates direct acts of poetic composition in plays, hymns, and fables, conferring on him the title ...

Poetry and song were originally the same art. In the ancient world, all poetry was sung or chanted. Indeed, it was often ...

Ian McEwan’s excellent What We Can Know is set in a UK largely swallowed up by rising seas. Emily H. Wilson explores the ...

"The New Book" collects the late poet's final thoughts, revealing "even more of who she always was" as her health declined ...

Born in Shiraz between 1310 and 1325, Khajeh Shamseddin Mohammad Hafeẓ Shirazi, known by his pen name Hafez, is best known for his collection of poetry known as “Divan,” which is still read and ...

What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat to her button? A child to his toes? A pebble to the river? Dear Acorn, ...