These collections by Juliana Spahr, Mai Der Vang, Hasib Hourani and Martín Espada invite us to rethink the relentless accumulation of history.

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

The 19th-century English poet was a "prolific reviser" who tested out many variations of his work before publication. A new ...

On March 18, the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society and Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society partnered to host the annual Ides of March Poetry Reading. Students attended and read a poem of their ...

Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of ...

I remember just being astonished by the representations of the gods. The omnipresence of the gods in the world of the Iliad, ...

April is National Poetry Month, so in honor of that I will offer some thoughts about springtime poems. The first to come to ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

Doggerel! There I said it. Sometimes words just wander through my mind on their way to somewhere else. That one drifted through just the other morning as I was accompanying Lucy, the Ambassador of ...

Poetry, like most art, is subjective, and people’s tastes run as wide as the collections on offer. Whether young or old, well ...

Queens residents with a passion for the arts can celebrate National Poetry Month at St. John’s University, which is hosting a ...

In the Ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey,” Odysseus’ men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens’ ...