I’d listened to my father talk ‘bout days of World War II. And how he served his country. He wore the Navy Blue.

The day marked a major step forward for the country after ... Spending much of her life as a recluse in her Massachussetts home, her collection of almost 1,800 poems was discovered by her younger ...

Here’s how my thoughts ran: These poems were often posted somewhere so the recipients ... the reverence for a simple country life, and the reverence for recluses. I also give students an overview of ...

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right ... Cromwell and Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” That lofty pedigree is surely part ...

Only the amnesiac can claim poetry was never popular in America. From the days of Bryant and Emerson, it played an important role in American intellectual life -- until recently. Surely it was ...

including several of her poems. We're making Higginson's article about Emily Dickinson available here in its entirety. It's a fascinating first-hand account of one of this country's true poetic ...

Poems about pies, the foul-mouthed parrot upstaging Margaret Atwood and starting World War III via Desert Island Discs: Ian McMillan on the Country Life Podcast Poet, broadcaster and writer Ian ...

Yemen has sadly long been a country with so few opportunities ... unfortunately. Jihadist poetry has clearly taken over Kendall's life in a similar way that avant-garde Egyptian literature once ...

Here, Antjie Krog writes about the role that poetry plays in a country like South Africa ... it offers a moment of blinding ...

It happens in life all the time ... let's talk about 'The Emigrée' by Carol Rumens. In that poem the speaker's remembering the country that they left as a child, and they've got this really ...

Now I have a pretty segmented reading life. I read fiction before bed. I read multiple nonfiction books at once and start ...