Explore the deep meaning behind Robert Frost's iconic quote and learn how it reflects our life choices and the stories we ...

Does poetic constraint empower creativity? Known for her received forms like sonnets and sestinas, American poet A.E.

ALTOONA, Pa. — A forthcoming book of poems by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has been ...

The last poem Seamus Heaney completed appears towards the end of this magisterial book. It was commissioned by the National Gallery to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The final draft of the poem was ...

Reviewed by David Lehman. Long a mainstay of the New York School’s second generation, Ron Padgett—the self-styled “Tulsa Kid,” as the title of one of his books has it—left Oklahoma to attend Columbia ...

Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any day? Whether it’s with a warm friendship quote or a thoughtful gift (like a book about friendship), there are so many ...

In collaboration with the Unbound Book Festival, Dismal Niche, an artist-operated programming organization in Columbia, hosted a free-jazz trio performance on Saturday, April 19. The jazz trio ...

The only book Martin Bell published in his lifetime was his Collected Poems, a hardback between mustard-coloured paper covers with a wood engraving showing a contemplative puritan poet. There was ...

Along Interstate 71, in a flat stretch of Ohio, an otherwise modest billboard proclaims that “hell is real.” The type, set against a black backdrop, is white, except for the “H,” which is painted a ...

Life The brilliant German-Jewish poet you have probably never heard of Nelly Sachs is not as well known as she should be but now that her translated collected poems have won the Warwick Prize, she ...