“America, the Beautiful,” Bates’s poem, set to music, became the United States’ unofficial anthem, a hymn of love of country. There are plenty of better poems about America, the land and ...

“Lost in America” is a poem of powerful juxtapositions. It has the appearance of prose, yet through anaphoric repetition, it creates a rhythmic experience closer to sacred and liturgical poetry.

The Washington Monthly is an independent voice, listened to by insiders and willing to take on sacred cows—liberal and conservative. And we need your support. The poem that inspired the song, America ...

PATERSON, BOOK IV (55 pp.)—William Carlos Williams—New Directions ($3).Since 1946, Poet and Pediatrician William Carlos Williams has been publishing parts of a long poem, Paterson. In ...

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) had a name to conjure with, back in the day. Once upon a time, all of literate America knew his book-length poem about the Civil War, “John Brown’s Body” (1928) and ...

Held in recognition of America’s 250th birthday, students are invited to write and submit an original poem about America for the contest. Philip Freneau – who moved to Monmouth County in 1762 ...

Sarah Fleming was a Black poet who advocated tirelessly for African-American women’s rights. Her poem about friendship echoes a universal truth: the world could always use a little more love.

This short poem was collected by Mary Austin, an early-20th-century American poet of the modernist movement. Although she was not Native American, she worked to preserve and publish Native ...