Iris Murdoch, the formidable Irish and British novelist and philosopher, died in 1999. Since then, the Murdoch industry has ...

When Cyprus Mail published “A poem for Cyprus” in honor of Independence Day, it underscored something many on the island instinctively understand: poetry is not confined to classrooms or literary ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his memoir, "Story of a Poem" (Unnamed Press), the celebrated writer Michael Zapruder (author of "Father's Day" and ...

Happy 140th birthday, Robert Frost — you're totally misunderstood. But most people don't realize the great American poet was being ironic when he famously wrote that taking the road less traveled ...

Love poems didn’t start as private confessions. For much of their history, they were closer to public performances—tools for politics, status, ...

Arriving as the B-side for Allegaeon’s recently released cover of J.S. Bach’s “Concerto in Dm” last month comes a new music video for the band’s interpretation of “In Flanders Fields,” a war poem by ...

If Emily Dickinson haunts this world that so pained her, what might she think of her poems being set to music? Very likely, the reclusive poet would not even venture out of her Amherst home to ...