Maya Angelou, who died in May 2014, became one of those figures (à la Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln) who ended up with more of other people’s words attributed to her than words of her own.

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through ... the poet Danielle Chapman (Wiman’s essay “Love Bade Me Welcome” in part offers a moving portrait ...

The words of Henry Gauding's poem are as true today as they were when he wrote them as a welcome for the troops returning home after World War I. As the Desert Storm troops begin returning to the ...