It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

When she returned to visit the school in 1980, sixth-grade students sang several verses of the original poem during a ceremony around the school’s flagpole, the Evening Gazette reported. Sen.

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? The authors of Project 2025 are at it again with Project Esther, a plan that’s supposedly about fighting antisemitism. Amanda Lewellyn is ...

Almost half a century after Massachusetts adopted its official poem, Gov. Maura Healey is looking to name someone as the state’s first official poet laureate. The Bay State is one of only three ...

Dame Esther Rantzen spoke bravely of nearing the end of her life as she looked forward to what she predicted would be her 'last Spring.' The journalist and TV presenter is no longer responding to ...

ESTHER Rantzen's daughter has given a heartbreaking health update on her mum's condition as she lives with terminal lung cancer. Rebecca Wilcox appeared on tonight's 5 News and revealed a new ...

Dame Esther Rantzen’s daughter has revealed that the ‘amazing’ new drug that was delaying the spread of her mother’s cancer is no longer working. The 84-year-old broadcaster revealed in ...

Dame Esther Rantzen is too poorly to end her life at Dignitas, her daughter says. The terminally ill presenter, 84, has tirelessly campaigned to legalise assisted dying since receiving a lung ...

I am writing to you with a special poem that I have composed to commemorate the 15-year anniversary of the passing of Ernie Harwell, beloved voice of the Detroit Tigers. (Editor's note ...