Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

How do you write about the life of a man who was “all his life… patiently learning how not to live at all”? Poet, critic, translator, and teacher — Ayyappa Pani ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney discovers overlooked women authors who inspired the famous ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their ...

Explore iconic ‘70s female singers who defined a decade. Discover their timeless music, unforgettable voices and lasting ...

Thomas Merton expressed this vision in his poetry, novels, essays, devotionals, and autobiographical writings. We present to you this collection of poems honoring the Virgin ... for dawn my death: ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about poetry this week. Last Saturday, I sat in the Sutter Theater Center for the Arts and listened to 25 high school students recite from ...