Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

Whether exposing injustice, exploring identity, or telling unforgettable stories, these authors write with urgency and beauty.

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf.

When Eliza Acton’s second collection of poetry was denied publication, she pivoted. The result—a recipe book for home cooks—forever changed the culinary world.

Sometimes, we don’t love the person who loves us. Ancient Greeks and Romans also had a lot to say about this subject.

The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...

The little book of modern verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle, 1869-1948 Publication date [1913] Topics American poetry -- Collections ...

Gut-wrenching, omnipotent, and utterly brilliant: Dear Evan Hansen at Grand Opera House, York Jacob Bassford reviews a performance of the famous contemporary Broadway musical at York’s Grand Opera ...