Swanson started writing poetry when she was in her early 20s and wrote a book of poems, “Spirit Within,” which she ...

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 ...

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

Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

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

The White House has put its own twist on the traditional “Roses are Red” poem this Valentine’s Day. The official social media ...

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

“Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring ... He had an older sister, Wendy, and a twin brother, Peter (whose death, a decade ago, inspired the second half ...