By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

On the south side of the river / inside a mossy grove / they say there lives a boy / with pockets full of gold… So begins a ...

One in five (20%) believe classic love poetry only focuses on hetero-romantic love, while 60% claim the lack of ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Missouri Poet Laureate David Harrison shares how to fill your own sack of ideas and describes what he keeps in his.

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Valentine's Day is a time for poetry, to speak of love and how romance and relationships change and deepen over time. Elders ...

Lancaster’s annual literature festival is back on March 7–17 with the theme ‘The World Into Words’. The hugely varied ...

By Herman M. Lagon The country’s landscape of reading comprehension and writing skills mirrors a quiet crisis woven with ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...