If we don’t think of Washington Irving (1783–1859) as a poet, that’s because poet is one of the few things Irving didn’t try to be. Travel writer, biographer, diplomat, editor, copyright-law pioneer, ...

Halfway around the world from the battles that haunt her, an outspoken American woman found a new voice Wednesday in the words of an Indian student, who composed a poem called “Silence” and sent it to ...

Writing poetry may not fill your pockets, let alone a retirement account, but there are rewards a-plenty, Bob Stephens writes.

[Noozhawk’s note: This poem was shared by a reader in response to Noozhawk’s 12-day, six-week special investigative series, Prescription for Abuse. The author’s full name has been withheld.] Who is ...

Our Lady of Allen, South Dakota be with us. Our Lady of turquoise towers and water pumps, of barbiturate skies barreling o’er dry granaries, bucolic at the continental pole of inaccessibility. Our ...

“Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son — lynched?” ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Phyllis Montana-Leblanc wrote the poem “The ...

Today, Oct. 28, 2021, is the 135th birthday of the Statue of Liberty. No doubt some perfunctory things will be said on the occasion. We need to think far deeper about what the monument — and ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- 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. As WBBM Newsradio's Mike Krauser reports, ...

First Lady Laura Bush has canceled a White House symposium on poetry because she feared the invited poets would recite poetry against war. Laura Bush defended her actions citing her freedom of speech.

The Library of Congress' new poet laureate, Arthur Sze, plans to spend his year working to translate poetry originally written in languages other than English.

It may be true, as we noted last May, that we have entered an era when nobody much reads Alexander Pope (1688–1744). And it may be true that the highly structured verse for which Pope argues in his ...