The expression comes from the famous scene in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which the eponymous seafarer shoots and kills an albatross—a sign of good luck or providence ...

Sacramento recognized its poet laureate ahead of the release of his new poetry book, “Unlocked: The Laureate Years.” ...

Celebrate National Poetry Month in the Hudson Valley with these workshops, talks, readings, open mics and a hotline.

America’s oldest continuously operating distillery is temporarily closed because of major flooding in Kentucky this week, caused by days of heavy downpours that have caused the Kentucky, Ohio ...

Borough of Manhattan Community College student Stephanie Pacheco, the 2024-25 National Youth Poet Laureate, wrote a poem highlighting her experience at The City University of New York and her ...

Harry Cluff on the debts owed by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams & Rainer Maria Rilke to the painter.

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of need. Either way, I’d love to know why it matters to you.

Elsie turned out to be a weary person & the house filled the author with distaste until she found out it was the house of a famous modern ... author knew many of his poems by heart.

Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more poetry, humor, cleaning, travel, tech and fun facts all week long. The most famous of all Christmas poems, “A Visit from St. Nicholas ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

It’s almost a truism with LLMs that their behavior often surprises the people who build and research them. In the latest study, the surprises kept coming. In one of the more benign instances, the ...

The poems are redolent of spring, full of verdant growth and birdsong. Perhaps such happy poetry shouldn’t be so unusual, but Gay’s odes to such everyday pleasures as sleeping in his clothes ...