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.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Let me unfold what the poem has come to mean to us when my wife ... for those who do. When you are "old and grey and full of sleep, nodding by the fire," you get it.

Grammar wants that interrupting “child” to refer back to “me,” who seems to be cradled in the daughter’s maternal arms. The poem is so vivid, so specific, that the photograph takes shape ...

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.

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

But I was excited about poetry.” She is a Sahitya Akademi winner and was shortlisted for the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize. “Being nominated for the T.S. Eliot Prize meant a lot to me because I ...