We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919) and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922) can be read ...

Harrison Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot ... Another teacher who is also a writer asked me to elaborate. I was caught off-guard for a second, then I thought perhaps ...

Hardly any English-language poetry ... a funeral online provides, as cold comfort, the opportunity for elegy: These are the non-sequiturs of febrile, grieving thought—of a poet trying to come ...

Into their fourth year of war, Ukrainians living in or near front line regions of their country grapple with their losses and ...

The writing of Eoin McNamee’s new book The Bureau started when he came across a letter a criminal wrote to his father from ...

A line that will live on in Husker memory for years to come. Greg Sharpe first ... Sharpe made a simple request for his funeral remarks: “Make it light, make fun of me, talk about the good ...

He was reciting poetry in eight different languages ... I hope someone can come and help me change my genre. That is so hard to find. Iman is my muse. I’m part Persian, Iman is fully Persian.

"Come springtime in Tennessee, we have buttercups coming up around the side of the barn and last week he brought me a little mason jar full of them and wrote me a little poem,” she said another ...

EVERY time Liz Holmes looks at Nero the dog, she’s reminded of her best friend and daughter.  For laughter-loving yoga ...