Sugar Hill Gang hit the airwaves, Black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar was crafting verses that could rival the best of them.

ESTELLA LAUTER How to map the route of one who traveled continents, lived through men and war to find her way at last in ...

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

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 ...

She lets out a sigh and has a good cry, I tell her to release her feelings one at a time,” Cecelia, 30, wrote in a poem that ...

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

Valentine's Day allows you to express love through thoughtful gestures, gifts, and activities. This article offers 20 ...

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.

It’s about what it means to be a young person in a generation that is going to end, and is currently changing the world,” the lauded poet said of her new book.

What are the top poems inspired by ancient Greece ... “This song / is a cry for help: Help me! / Only you, only you can, / you are unique / at last.” Atwood shifts perspective by making one of the ...