You must share the message with everyone — let them know your suffering. Tell them how dear and marvelous our freedom truly ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation on ...

“A considerate partner thinks about how his or her behavior affects you,” Gilbertson said, echoing Fila’s sentiments. “They ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

Man Accidentally Finds Rare Manuscript of Shakespeare’s Sonnet Hidden in a Poetry Collection of a Library Literary history ...

He is struck on a road just outside Damascus, and his life is readjusted. He then is the recipient of hardship: the Lord will ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk ... I thought they would be pretty and instead discovered one man’s neurotic inner monologue annotated over 154 poems. It was like a single ...

Dickinson never married, though she fell in love with a number of unavailable men and women. This poem seems to point to her relationship with the Rev. Charles Wadsworth, a married Presbyterian ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

One of China's most famous poets, who some call the country's Emily Dickenson, is breaking new boundaries by taking to the stage to dance.

How to trust a man in a uniform ... that doesn’t love a wall. Give it a name. A history. Tell us in verse why it hates walls so desperately. Why we all should. Write a poem from the point ...