Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

The poet of entertainment is known for his expert timing. Here he mixes sophistication with faux-naivete to create pertinent insights about family, humiliation and poetry and brings everyone back ...

Ogden Nash regularly contributed verse to The New Yorker for more than forty years. His last poem in the magazine was published the week after his death, in 1971. The former executive editor ...

His debut book of poetry, “Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear” (2022) won the Palestine Book Award and an American Book Award. But for Abu Toha, the relevance of his most recent work lies not in his ...

Intellectuals, writers and activists visited Lynchburg poet Anne Spencer. Starting Tuesday, Special Collections visitors can ...

What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Limón continues celebrating her signature project, "You Are Here," connecting readers to nature through poetry, plus more of ...

The massive 800-page collection includes messages written by the Nobel Prize winner around the time Lawrence WIlson was ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Reputations are made and rewards distributed within the poetry subculture. To adapt Russell Jacoby's definition of contemporary academic renown from The Last Intellectuals, a "famous" poet now ...

This article originally appeared in the fall 2024 issue of UC San Diego Magazine as “Pulitzer Poet.” ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...