Boston's about to bust a rhyme.Dozens of prominent poets, including a former U.S. poet laureate, will commandeer the courtyard of the Boston Public Library on Thursday to read aloud from the city's ...

the first time the knife starts to slip. first thing, or too ready to begin. Then it’s on to ordinary work. Paul Hunter is a poet, musician, instrument-maker, teacher, and editor and publisher. For ...

VIDEO - A University of Texas at Arlington graduate student recently found a piece of American history that offers more insight on U.S. slavery. Julie McCown, a doctoral student, discovered one of the ...

Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), a promising student of the English composer Charles Villiers Stanford, thought of music, not poetry, as his primary vocation. It was in the trenches in France during World War ...

Poets Keep on Publishing Books HARMONIUM — Wallace Stevens — Knopf ($2.00) matches its odd, bright cover. The titles of the poems show the mood, Peter Quince at the Clavier, The Comedian as the Letter ...

At her inauguration as the city's poet laureate, Genny Lim recites from her poem, "I am American." "I am American. We live, love, work, sleep and breathe In this Babylon of 48 hills..." she begins. As ...

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for most of its 11 lines. And then it bursts into flame. At first, the emotional ...

Will Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department” usher in a new era of poetry appreciation? Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who teaches a ...

Joy Harjo, member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, said her appointment as poet laureate is an important recognition of Native American culture.Shawn Miller, Library of Congress Monday is World's ...

BOSTON – Boston's about to bust a rhyme. Dozens of prominent poets, including a former U.S. poet laureate, have assembled the city's first anthology of poetry — and they'll commandeer the courtyard of ...