As an esteemed poet and a retired professor of philosophy at UW-Milwaukee, John Koethe kept those two worlds separate. “I used to make a point of saying I don’t write philosophical poems,” he says.

A Nanaimo balladeer’s new folk tune gives new life to a poem from the year 1900. John Gogo’s The Morning After puts a ...

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

Emily Dickinson explained what the feeling of writing poetry is like, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were ...

When Life Gives You Tangerines doesn’t offer big twists — just a gentle nudge to pause, breathe, and truly see the life ...

Randy J. Smith shares his journey in The Road Unknown, a collection of poems that explore the struggles and emotions of living with illness. The book reflects on pain, hope, and the quiet moments.

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

Although it is a poetry book written for children, ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ by Shel Silverstein offers insight for readers ...

In the story I am thinking of, he does it in a particularly surprising way: God instructs Moses, the leader of the Israelites ...

The Bhagavad Gita, a timeless spiritual text, and the Natyashastra, a foundational work on the performing arts, have been ...