In March 1920, on his third and final visit to Chicago, William Butler Yeats explained his dramatic ideal to a crowd at the Casino Club. “I am trying,” he said, “to create a form of poetical drama ...

William Butler Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" a hundred years ago, when the world seemed on the verge. Perhaps like now, perhaps like many years. The losses of the First World War were still ...

For some, St. Patrick’s Day is a time to swill green beer and listen to the Pogues, Cranberries or Dropkick Murphy songs. And if you don’t mind the ensuing hangover, it might be fun, but there are ...

Gregg Weatherby, a lecturer in SUNY Cortland’s English Department, will read from Dylan Thomas’ “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” and portray the poet and famous figure in literature on Thursday, Dec. 8, ...

Head over to the first floor of the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. in Davis, at at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, for the Poetry Night Reading Series. This reading will feature two poets who will be ...

A poem read aloud is a mysterious thing. Poems, which are really just potent combinations of words, have the power to sneak in and disturb someone in surprisingly intimate ways, provoking emotions, ...

There are poems that express fragile sensitivity, poems that strive for cosmic profundity, poems that offer up idyllic perspectives on life that we would all be wise to emulate. But chances are, those ...