You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls.

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 ...

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

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 ...

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance ...