By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

Yet for all the scorn heaped upon it, purity culture is not the most pressing threat today. Even if it proved ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Rick Lupert, a poet, songleader and graphic designer, is the author of 28 books including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every ...

During the Victorian era, the concept of floriography, or the language of flowers, grew. So, what message do you want to send ...

Deep South, a small publisher with big influence, has expanded its website with easy-to-access information about its poets ...

Baby names inspired by Lord Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom, learning, and the arts, offer a profound and meaningful choice.

The North Park resident says she hopes to work with local schools to incorporate more poetry into their curriculums and host ...

A pamphlet of new poems is due later this year from Dare-Gale Press as well as a new collection Around the Mulberry Bush from Waterloo Press ...

In Words for Love, the poems look at all the many manifestations of love and include verse by W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare, Edna St Vincent Millay, D.H. Lawrence, Pippa Little ...