The award-winning poet, whose forthcoming book, "Night Owl," will be published in March, will participate in two talks during ...

Most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. —Matthew Arnold, “The Study of Poetry” Prayers and poems share an uncanny family resemblance. In fact, they look ...

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Across centuries and continents, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror of human experience: a time when beauty and decay, fullness and farewell, coexist. From Shakespeare’s trembling sonnets to ...

Harriet Monroe, the founder and longtime editor of Poetry magazine, was the author of a large body of poems that captured the essence of urban industrial modernity. Her 1914 book, You and I (Macmillan ...

I was beyond moved by the wonderful poem by Katrina Martinez ('Not My President', published June 26). Here is a young woman who's not afraid to tell it like it is and call out the president for his ...