Rahmat, poet-singer Minu Bakshi stirs emotions of love and longing. She tells HTCity how Urdu poetry is still relevant in Gen ...

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.

Not just a great writer, Poe had a circle of friends and family that cared for and about him, says the author of a new biography.

What does war look like from the inside? Ask Congo’s young slam poets.

Patrycja Humienik’s debut poetry collection, “We Contain Landscapes,” explores chronic illness, climate change, borders and ...

Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...

ASHLAND Nature has always been a friend to Steve Holt. “As a young man, I often went to the hills for solace, roaming and thinking,” he said, noting he hunted and fished with his father, but that wasn ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds." ...

The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming ...

Can we find love and meaning simply by observing the world around us? I believe we can. I sat in my church choir on a recent Sunday, listening intently to every word of the pastor ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.