Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential Black poets in America. A graduate of Howard University, he was ...

Poems that every child should know; a selection of the best poems of all times for young people by Burt, Mary Elizabeth, 1850-1918 Publication date 1904 Topics English poetry, American poetry ...

Scholars say handwriting errors in a 900-year-old document changes the understanding of "The Song of Wade", a lost English poem.

A collaboration of the library and PA Humanities, the Rain Poetry project features hidden haiku that is revealed only when ...

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David Gate has a popular following online, but his best poems suggest he’s not entirely comfortable as an influencer.

Writing poems following my lymphoma diagnosis gave me hope and purpose as I endured chemo, helping me heal and share my ...

Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds of medieval Japanese poems. But the compendium doesn’t draw from an array ...

During times of hardship, friendships are an important source of support. In the poetry collection “I Talk To Horses,” Jaylon ...

Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.

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