This week (April 19 to be exact) marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord in which civilian militia, known as the Minute Men, routed British troops who had marched from ...

Lattimore doesn't think he ever loved football. He loved "the flow state." The former Gamecock running back is rediscovering ...

Longfellow's poem on Paul Revere highlights revolutionary spirit; actual events reveal collective citizen action against ...

Not so long ago, I was visiting a dying woman. To console and encourage their mother, her daughters, who were also present, ...

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

This isn’t some newfangled eatery with deconstructed classics and microscopic portions; it’s a full-throttle time capsule ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

Vince Maranto is waiting. He has been waiting since 1969. For more than half a century, he has been wondering … questioning ...

Paul Revere was immortalized by Longfellow's poem and became an American icon. William Dawes, the other midnight rider, is ...

No other aspect of the American Revolution is as useful a metaphor for people all along the political spectrum.

Skye Jackson’s debut poetry collection, “Libre,” leads off with a poem that, back in 2021, won her deserved acclaim.