The 75-year-old poet, translator, and editor is the 54th recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a prestigious award ...

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

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Many legends claim to explain the origins of Valentine’s Day, but as is the case with legends, they leave many questions ...

Lisa Schnebly Heidinger and Julie Morrison traveled across Arizona, writing poems and prose to document their journey in ...

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald is remembered as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century for “The Great Gatsby” ...

Few individuals have left an impact as great as Maya Angelou across so many sectors. Best known for her autobiographical ...

The poet laureate will serve as an ambassador for the arts to promote creative expression and inspire writers across the ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney discovers overlooked women authors who inspired the famous ...

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

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...