The poem, in part, is a response to “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith, a well-known poem often circulated on social media in times of great disaster about “keeping the reality of life’s ugliness from young ...

Despite the quiet and contemplative sadness that permeates some of his most well-known poems, James Tate was one of the few poets who dared to mess with joy and wonder on a regular basis. He ...

Kate McGarry's interpretation of E.E. Cummings' well-known poem develops slowly, first with her voice backed by a sparse guitar, before moving into a vocal duet with Jo Lawry.Instruments including ...

Today, the lines engraved in bronze on the base of the Statue of Liberty are almost as well-known as the statue itself. But the young woman who wrote “The New Colossus” and its famous verses ...