Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

The workmates loudly gossiping at a nearby desk may set your teeth grinding but rock star British poet David Whyte warns we ...

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 concert of the Jupiter String Quartet and UI Chamber Singers on Jan. 26 was originally scheduled to be given last fall, then it was postponed, so it is an ...

Missouri Poet Laureate David Harrison shares how to fill your own sack of ideas and describes what he keeps in his.

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

The Valentine's Day message sent by the White House on Friday was instead a threat to potential migrants thinking of heading ...

Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

Jalen Rose and David Jacoby talk Paul Georges' chances in OKC, Celtics next best move, Tom Izzo's 5 second rule, Def Poetry Jam's return, plus more Twitter and VM's!!!

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

Kendrick Lamar performed the Super Bowl LIX halftime show and left plenty of talking points behind, but some were more subtle ...