Lauren Christensen’s memoir, “ Firstborn ,” begins with an epigraph from Louise Glück’s poem “The Wild Iris”: “Hear me out: ...

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

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

Following the death of his great friend Arthur Henry Hallam in 1833, the poet Alfred Tennyson began writing In Memoriam AHH, ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.

Since singing about injustices in the 1960s, singer-songwriter Judy Collins, 85, has sung about social justice and equality.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if ...

Canberra flautist Sally Walker has played on stages around the world but few compare with her recital to dolphins ...

Just keep matriculating the ball down the field, boys. Hank Stram quotes aside, the object of the game is to wear down your ...

Vancouver's head of public art, Eric Fredericksen, says that although artist Brady Cranfield's Weekend Chime is conceptually ...