What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer that you might find in a poetry book? Maybe something by Poe or Dickinson?

Black History Month traces back to 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. In that pivotal year, Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland founded ...

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...

John McCrae, a surgeon in the Canadian Army, wrote possibly one of the most famous pieces of war poetry, In Flanders Fields, while observing the scenes outside a dressing station near Ypres in 1915.

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

It’s surely something to celebrate that the most famous Scot in world history is a poet. Royalty and dictators get far too much attention as ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “96 Vandam,” by Gerald Stern, and his own poem “Man on a Fire Escape.” The poets talk about “A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker.” ...

Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, is a place of pilgrimage for literature lovers. More than 100 poets and writers are buried or have memorials here. And, so began a tradition of burials and memorials ...

Unlike our everyday writing, poetry is artistic ... Pay attention to allusions to famous figures and important world events, and think about their roles, and how they are used: Do they support ...

He was well known in his day, and made friends with other poets such as Li Bai, another famous poet in the Tang ... running away from the capital. This poem called ‘Spring Scene’ describes ...