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, ...

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 ...

As the sun breaks through the clouds, on an island, there she stands. There for all the world to see, a torch raised in her hand. Even though she never speaks, a smile is on her face. Waiting for her ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

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 ...