John Keats, born in 1795, was a key poet of the second generation, profoundly influenced by classical literature and art. His early career included an apprenticeship as a surgeon apothecary before ...

One late evening in December, 1985, I heard a radio talk-show host announce “a great loss: Robert Graves is dead.” It came as ...

Happy holidays, and happy reading! All That We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy by Bridget Bell (Cavankerry) If there has ...

Recognize this stage for what it is: a developmental necessity. The creative impulse of middle age will persistently gnaw at ...

The Danville poet captures a Vermont that is always on the verge of becoming even as it fades in her latest collection.

The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by ...

Bright Star tells the tumultuous story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne – and in 2026, it is being retold in a new way.

How did Robert Frost so perfectly capture a moment of timelessness? Discover the hidden craft in this classic’s simplicity ...

Her nine volumes included “Kyrie,” a suite of sonnets about the 1918 influenza epidemic. She was also Pulitzer Prize finalist and a poet laureate of Vermont.

A winter storm placed around 49 million people under winter weather alerts over the weekend. It caused whiteout conditions on highways across the Midwest, between cities like St. Louis and Chicago.

In 1986, when late Nitin Mukadam called Menka Shivdasani to ask if there was an audience for poetry, she was sceptical, having heard senior poets express doubt. Later, on a quest to find the answer, ...