“It’s one of the moments of Western consciousness,” says Frederick Seidel, 90, the author of more than a dozen collections of ...

Simon Armitage’s ‘The Moon and the Zoo’ explores the enduring connection between wildlife and people in honour of ZSL's ...

This is the 30th anniversary of National Poetry Month and our community offers several opportunities to celebrate poetry.

Paul Revere was a businessman, a political leader, a legend and a myth. A look at his April 18, 1775, midnight ride, and the ...

Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a group continues his work on a new medium — the internet. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1 ...

Amanda Gorman, a poet and activist who in 2021 made history as the youngest poet ever to read at a presidential inauguration, debuted a new poem on the third night of the Democratic convention ...

Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, ancient Greek poems have prompted new insights into spoken language.

The medieval poem “Pearl” was written by someone whose identity we do not know, and is set mostly within a dream. Neither of these facts is unusual in medieval poetry. Authorship is often unclear for ...

British poet laureate Simon Armitage has met schoolchildren at London Zoo, where he recited the new poem he has written to ...