This year marks the 73rd anniversary of the 1952 Language Movement. Drawing on research based on various published books, ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Rossetti and Zephaniah have all followed. Now, poet laureate and Yorkshireman Simon Armitage – has ...

Day and night, soft purr ... It’s a canonical American poem, first published in his second collection Praise (1979). It is sublimely lyrical and inflected with philosophies of language and ...

Over the course of nearly two centuries, the American jeweller has become synonymous with romance and engagements. Read more ...

ROBERT FROST: Whose woods these are, I think I know. His house is in the village, though. He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow.

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...

The Juvenile Hall poetry program was looking for a way to share students’ work just as the county office of education was ...

The White House has put its own twist on the traditional “Roses are Red” poem this Valentine’s Day. The official social ... capital offenses such as first degree murder or child rape.