By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on ...

The poet laureate will serve as an ambassador for the arts to promote creative expression and inspire writers across the ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in ...

The weather has recently evoked the image of an oversized leather chair, a crackling fireplace, a rich mug of hot chocolate ...

Massachusetts will soon have its first-ever poet laureate. Gov. Maura Healey this week signed an executive order creating the ...

They’d banish us, you know. So begins an eight-line poem by Emily Dickinson. Written in 1861 and published posthumously in 1890, the work spent decades in a drawer, along with 800 other writings.