If Laura Bush hadn’t postponed the poets’ conclave scheduled for Feb. 12 at the White House, the First Lady might have received Marilyn Nelson’s poem about Emmett Till.

Poem of the Day: ‘On a Certain Lady at Court’ Alexander Pope’s poem presents us with an admirable woman, a subject which in the hands of any subsequent generation — in Wordsworth’s hands, say — would ...

Waiting for her wandering friends. She sure has stood the test. Don McAnally is a resident of Jackson.

Poem of the Day: ‘A Certain Young Lady’ Washington Irving’s foray into poetry is funny in part because it channels the voice of the nineteenth-century gossip column. Washington Irving. Via Wikimedia ...

POEM ON A WOMAN STIRS ALL ENGLAND; Watson's "Woman with the Serpent's Tongue" Identified in Very High Life. MAKES AND UNMAKES MEN Pitiless Picture of a Distinguished Lady, Who Was a Member of "The ...

Lady Gaga called her an inspiration – a woman who grew up in Wilmette and posted a poem about her struggle with eating disorders on YouTube.

The Statue of Liberty, France's gift to the U.S., was originally viewed as a tribute to the end of slavery. But poet Emma ...

In her poem “Lady Lazarus”, she imagined her corpse, surrounded by a grubby spectacle. “The peanut-crunching crowd / Shoves in to see / Them unwrap me hand and foot–– / The big strip ...

In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of 2024.