month-long appreciation of poetry and the amazing writers who compose it. In honor of the month of festivities, I’ve compiled some of my favorite classic poems to reread for National Poetry ...

Now 46 and living with her family in a house overlooking the Hudson River, Merchant says it took her a long while to come to poetry, and only then through its sounds and rhythms. Poetry comes ...

Now another addition to our NewsHour Bookshelf. We look at a new take on a long-admired American poem. Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown has that. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I ...

But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy. Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer!This illustration was produced for an 1893 edition of the 1823 poem “A Visit From St. Nicholas ...

Photograph via Alvin Langdon Coburn/Wikipedia. As a Classic Poem suitable for Valentine's Day, here is a vivid one about crazy, driven love. Love and insanity have a long association. Expressions ...

This meant that I had heard Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men,” which the film features in a hammy (and on the whole rather effective) reading by Marlon Brando. Not long after, I found a copy of ...

The early and medieval Irish poets have long been identified as powerful social ... Riordan's informative introduction describes the lyrical "monastic" poetry as being "without a public function.