An appreciation of the creative genius of Dante, St. John of the Cross, Alexander Pope, St. Ephrem the Deacon and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Attilio Runcaldier (1801-1884), “Portrait of Dante Alighieri,” ...

Kwame Alexander believes that wonder lies between the lines of poems. His new book Out of Wonder, is a collection of original poems for children written in the style of some of the world's most famous ...

ONCE there were three men in the living room of an apartment in Seattle. Two of them were present in body, watching each other with the wariness of new acquaintance, and the other was there by ...

A GREAT American poet! I had at last found him. It mattered not that I was an obscure student in a famous graduate school; it mattered not that great poets in their day had bowed down to Denham and to ...

A new biography celebrates the life and legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, who wrote about ordinary black life using... Remembering The Great Poet Gwendolyn Brooks At 100 In 1950, ...

One of the reasons we’re able to understand, with such vivid knowledge, what life was like during WW1 is thanks to some great poetry. But what many who grew up reading Britain's First World War poets ...