Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Paul Valery once said that poetry is “literature reduced to the essence,” but in recent years poetry seems to have become a good deal less essential to most ...

Most Fridays, Mary Lee Hahn, a 5th grade English and language arts teacher at Wright Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio, has her students pick a poem and recite it to the class. She’s been doing this ...

Explore how Romantic period poetry and science intersected, revealing a unique cultural mindset of another time. This is the patent age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All ...

In 1969, the Gotham Book Mart, that New York survivor in the threatened realm of the independent book store, published a volume of poems by poets who came of age in the 1950s and drawings by their ...

Since the collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991, Russian poetry has begun to resemble American poetry in ways that are both fascinating and sad. What’s fascinating is how talented, and how different ...

Lately, in English departments the idea of grouping works of literature by when they were written has started to feel outdated, or at least old-fashioned. This might sound odd since the field is ...