David Ferry, a renowned poet and translator who transported modern readers to Gilgamesh’s Mesopotamia, to Horace and Virgil’s Rome and to a startling literary landscape that was entirely his ...

A poet whose translations of Horace and Virgil are revered, David Ferry won the National Book Award in 2012 for “Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations,” which includes “Lake Water,” and ...

David J. Reedy III, 79 of Southampton, NJ (previously Easton, PA; originally Scranton, PA), passed peacefully at home on May 15, 2025 serenaded by his favorite poet-lyricist, Bob Dylan.

Ephriam David Tyler Ephriam David Tyler was born in Grand Cane on Jan. 10, 1884, less than two decades after the end of the American Civil War.

Smith College will host a reading by retired Smith professors James Sacré and David Ball at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in the Poetry Center, Wright Hall. This reading, which is free and open to the ...

Ephriam David Tyler's poems often encourage others, particularly those of his race. Using a pencil as his weapon, he fought for justice during the civil rights movement.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu remembers a friend, Baltimore poet David Franks. Franks blurred the line between his private life and his public art: He did outrageous things and had a sense of humor ...

LATE ROMANCE: Anthony Hecht — A Poet’s Life, by David Yezzi To write about the poet Anthony Hecht in 2024 is to invite the question of why, in 2024, anyone is writing about the poet Anthony Hecht.

His fourth book, “Poetry Classics,” will be available at Thursday’s event. “I was encouraging David to at least look at printing a book that is 40 years in the making,” Scott-Matthews said.

Poet J. Ivy was a teenager struggling with his parents divorce when he met Paula Argue, the high school teacher who opened a whole new world to him.

David Bottoms was a poet grounded in the realities of the Georgia landscape and its people. He was Georgia's poet laureate from 2000 to 2012. Bottoms died March 10.