Two of my favorite things about older poetry are its ability to speak to modern audiences despite the generation gap and the ways it can inspire recreations among these new ...

"Story The Crow Told Me," Ketch Secor's debut solo record, documents his history in Nashville in a love letter to Music City.

As if it were a jump shot from their basketball-obsessed childhood, “soaring towards the rim like a kite,” Andrea Gibson ...

The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a ...

Andrea Gibson poem quotes revisited as fans honor the beloved poet and queer activist following their passing at 49.

Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that veiled ...

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

The love between friends deserves to be celebrated. These poems about friendship are sweet, relatable and heartfelt ways to say "I love you." ...

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf.

Depending on how you look at things and your level of interest, as one delves into the various aspects of history you find that not every piece of it is overly revelatory. Oftentimes, the minutiae of ...

Wichita poet Albert Goldbarth was included in a New Yorker anthology this year, but he doesn’t necessarily want to discuss it ...