Poet Saeed Jones tells this story in his poem “Boy in Whalebone Corset,” using its 25 lines to explore themes of gender and masculinity, sex and violence, power, history and memory.

The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us.

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

November marks the 170th anniversary of the publication of "Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie," the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that became a cultural touchstone for many Acadians in New ...

October's Guest Room Sessions begin with Louisiana-born singer-songwriter Shelly Waters performing her song “Evangeline," in a South Carolina park. Readers can press play above to watch the ...

“This is the forest primeval . . .” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s opening line of the epic poem Evangeline might very well describe the increasingly frenetic scene along Fort Lauderdale beach ...

What many people around the world know about Cajuns and how they were exiled from Canada likely comes from the famous poem "Evangeline." Although the love story is fiction, it may have done more ...