The prolonged absence of parents often places grandparents, as the children's primary caregivers, at the center of their ...

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

The intricacies of poetry can be quite remarkable. Carefully crafted form, wording, and symbolism alone are hard to capture ...

would happen if we decided to survive more, to love harder? This is a line from the poem Dead Stars and I love it because here you see her acknowledge the hard stuff of living, but it's embedded in ...

Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and more than 100 years apart. Only 24, Nowell Oxland died in World War One in 1915, nine days before one of his poems, about his ...

Featuring selections from five books augmented by 20 new poems, this generous volume from Laux (The Book of Men) reads something like a life story: notably, one that begins with familial fear, incest, ...

This exquisite dual-language edition of Gil de Biedma’s selected poems reveals the voice of a preeminent poet of mid-20th-century Spain. Gil de Biedma (1929–1990), a closeted gay man and left-wing ...

Before her Nov. 17 appearance at St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater for the Talking Volumes literary series, Baer talked with the ...

The Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park has announced a new poetry trail that will take visitors to far-flung places in ...