Karen Skinazi, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Literature and Culture and the director of Liberal Arts at the University of ...
Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.
Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...
Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...
Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...
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Is poetry useless?
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...
Coming up at 9 a.m. on Thursday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks with the newly appointed Poet Laureate for the city of ...
When was the last time you sat on the grass, and listened to poetry? Or when you found yourself completely immersed in lyrical lines under the stars, and were inspired to put pen to paper?
The Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain” is an ambitious anthology edited by Doralee Brooks and featuring 140 poems, all either about ...
Faithfull haughtily sing-speaks Lord Byron’s florid iambic tetrameter in dedication to radiance in 1814, as if she herself was the subject of the poet’s devotion.