Those items are important to me, but I know they are just “treasures on earth” that can burn up in a fire. It’s the times ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

At the Haven Public Library at 6 pm on Tuesday, Feb. 11, Terry Lucas will read from his new collection of poetry, “Everything ...

McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his relentless ...

Tiffany & Co.'s latest campaign centers around notable poems and literary works by acclaimed poets and writers across history ...

Blue corn is an important food to the Navajo people. It’s the title of a new book of poems by Amber McCrary, "Blue Corn ...

Not everyone in the 14th century was charmed by the poem’s novelty or by Dante’s creative use of tradition in its three-part journey through hell (“Inferno”), purgatory (“Purgatorio”) and heaven ...

The beautiful ambiguity of that poem, its evocation of a couple’s love, the physicality and tenderness of their coming together, the brutality of their social circumstance, is perfectly held in ...

For the past 10 years, Sissay has kept a morning ritual in which he writes a poem as soon as he wakes. The result is this collection, which is an absolute balm for the soul. Filled with short ...

We present to you this collection of poems honoring the Virgin Mary written by Thomas Merton ... Begin your evening journey to the hills of heaven, And travel no less stately in the summer sky Than ...