In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks processes the sudden death of her husband of 35 years, and shares how other cultures make ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

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 ...

But all poetry, even funny poems and short poems for kids, has a common thread: The poets who write it are interpreters. They take an honest look at events and emotions and boil them down to some ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Troy Selwood's brothers all fought back tears as they paid tribute to a man whose identical twin Adam described as a ...

Former AFL player Troy Selwood has been remembered fondly by his brothers at a memorial service after he died suddenly last ...

Former AFL player Troy Selwood has been remembered fondly by his brothers at a memorial service after he died suddenly last ...

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

The Discovery When Rudra Vikram Srivastava stumbled onto this 11th-century inscription while exploring Garhwa Fort in ...

Poetry like this, year after year, engraved his place upon the landscapes of Central Otago and the Southern Alps in language that everyone could understand. They have become keepsakes, expressing for ...

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