Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

Pop music still has a role in political protest, says author of new version of Live Aid poem - In an interview with ‘The ...

I am more with you than I ever could have imagined,” Gibson says in the poem, written while facing a terminal illness.

A video reading of the poem, titled "Love Letter From the Afterlife" went viral after Gibson's passing was announced -- with ...

When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a ...

Wichita poet Albert Goldbarth was included in a New Yorker anthology this year, but he doesn’t necessarily want to discuss it ...

And I always - as soon as I read this new poem, "Nothing New," by Frost, I thought it's essentially a version of "Dust Of Snow," which I think he wrote the following year. That poem stays in my brain.

How a poem transformed Christmas into the festive holiday it is today. The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus.

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon about her poem engraved on NASA's spaceship headed 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter moon of Europa.

In an interview with ‘The Independent’, Rhidian Brooke also revealed Bob Geldof’s tongue-in-cheek four-letter reaction to the poem filled with famous song lyrics ...