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

Neerasam bhaavich nee poyithenkilum... Kunje neeyithu nukarnnale ammakk sughamavu... — Lines from Mambazham by Vyloppilli Sreedhara MenonThe simple, yet powerfu ...

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

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Honduran native Daniel Letona immigrated to the Boston area to build a high-tech career. He also found a community in the ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Another well-known poem, “Hold the Harvest,” was so powerful that Irish activist Michael Davitt called it the “Marseillaise of the Irish peasant,” comparing it to the French national anthem.

Nevertheless, they both held to a belief in a poet’s social responsibility. A well-known poem by Thomas ends with his evocation of an owl’s voice: “Speaking for all who lay under the stars, / Soldiers ...

Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

The city’s buildings were once laid out in a way that formed a rhythmic pattern. Today’s structures are tone-deaf.

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

She was widely known for “her discretion and gentle nature”. “This was a simple quiet and normal family life of a woman, a mother and her family, that was destroyed,” she says. Siobhan is now talking ...