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

We thought words travelled the wires / In the shiny pouches of raindrops …” – The Railway Children, Seamus Heaney; Poems on the Underground, January 1986.

The volume, edited by Dickinson scholars Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell, is the most complete collection of Dickinson ...

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

Boston-based writer Porsha Olayiwola is the spring artist-in-residence for Michigan State University’s Womxn of Color ...

We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot ...

“Uncle” is what you cry out when you surrender. Let’s take a moment to admire the needlework of the poem — what we might call ... be her mirror image. “I thought I was creating a ...

Explore the powerful poetry of former New America Fellows Sarah Kay and Clint Smith, reflecting on culture and the transformative power of words.

“It is the bounden duty of the courts to ensure that fundamental rights of citizens are not trampled upon… Without free thought ... If you read this poem plainly, it says that even if we ...