Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet ...

Why is punctuation important? Writing without punctuation is like living life without breaks and pauses. A small mark with ...

Learn active and passive voice with easy rules, examples, and step-by-step explanations. Beginner-friendly grammar guide for students to master voice change.

This article investigates how the diverse topography of the Philippines—its mountains, rainforests, coasts, and cities—has ...

Donne wrote his Devotions—a series of 23 essays on life, death ... who wrote in his 1825 poem “Work Without Hope”: “All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair— The bees are ...

By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include ... epigraph and the elusive uncited allusion. Here’s an example, in a poem called “Nicholson Baker & I,” from ...

Although presented as fiction, Childish Literature is a miscellany of previously published texts — diary entries, essays, poems, short stories — orbiting around the theme of fathers and sons.

Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you. L angston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...