Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Naomi Shihab Nye set the tone for her seventh visit to Santa Barbara with a quote by Rumi: “In this earth, in this soil, in ...

Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

In “Colors: Stories and Poems in Different Shades,” the latest volume by Sam Lucy, the author opens a window onto his view of ...

"On the shore of death, your journey ended. Your little heart ... which he inscribed with a ballpoint pen on a simple piece of white paper. He then asked that this poem and the story of his daughter ...

Patti Loso, 57, reads a poem at a vigil at Minneopa State Park on Nov. 30, 2024, for her son Jack, 19, who died from a ...

The poem was read to the inquiry ... the lasting impact on a mother of the senseless loss of her firstborn son, a child who ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

Poetry 'as a way to make sense of the world ... Arts Council of Rockland Executive Director Dorothy Atzl said after Masterson's death in 2022, the organization felt the program should continue.