It's the immigrants' fault because they know how to lie really well. They hide their work-filled days and the little time ...

Though I read everything from memoirs to romantasy, there is one genre in particular that haunted me for a long time: poetry.

His poetry, often simple yet profoundly evocative, captures the essence of the African American experience and, by extension, ...

The 75-year-old poet, translator, and editor is the 54th recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a prestigious award ...

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

I went to my rest a sober man, content with the stable progression of elements I found to be more reliable than any prayer. Sleep came easily. I went deep, then deeper, until in a single instant I ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

Charles Cutler of Hawley first became fascinated by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa in the early 1960s when Cutler was in Lisbon on a Fulbright Scholarship. Pessoa turned into one of his favorite ...

Naomi Shihab Nye set the tone for her seventh visit to Santa Barbara with a quote by Rumi: “In this earth, in this soil, in ...

HELEN OF TROY, 1993: Poems, by Maria Zoccola In Greek mythology ... a witty and acute anatomy of small-town life and of our own American cultural and spiritual barrenness. The world of prose ...