From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The greatest poetry books ever written I remember the first time I picked up ...

in "A Rain Dream," "The Snow Shower," "The Night Journey of a River," and particularly in "The Song of the Sower," a truly American poem, honoring the wide extended labors of the husbandman ...

First of all, it wasn't even initially part of the Statue of Liberty. The statue was built in the 1870s and 1880s. The poem ...

Julie Swarstad Johnson, an archivist and librarian at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, has served as poet in residence at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. She is author of the collection ...

His poetry, often simple yet profoundly evocative, captures the essence of the African American experience and, by extension, ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

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The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Studies in Philology Vol. 26, No. 1, Jan., 1929 What Made Freneau the Father of American... What Made Freneau the Father of American Poetry? This is the ...

The simplicity of his life informed his work. Ascending to fame at a time when Anglo-American poetry was growing increasingly difficult and obscure, Frost set himself apart. A lyric poet inspired ...

The Mary C. Jenkins Community and Cultural Center Board is hosting its fifth annual poetry contest in partnership with the Transylvania County 250th Anniversary Committee.