Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

Donne continues by telling death that he is merely a servant, indeed a “slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,” and ...

A Singapore court has granted a stay of execution to a Malaysian man just hours before he was set to be hanged for drug ...

Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

Boyd is retired professor at Wayne State University and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan.

An Aquarian Age savant, he was a founder of the artists’ collective USCO, which helped define the 1960s with psychedelic, ...

Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Frost’s approachable verse and appealing rural subjects brought him legions of admirers. His personal life was shot through ...

Singapore court grants stay of execution to Malaysian drug trafficker hours before hanging, amid protests and legal appeals.

In 1903, citizens of Kishinev went on a rampage — a pogrom against the Jews. That pogrom claimed the lives of 49 Jews and ...

A cause of death was not revealed, but Flack was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in August 2022 and ...