A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Hester Pulter wasn't famous for anything in particular, but the 17th-century aristocrat's poems have historical value for other reasons. Pulter wrote about science, religion, politics, the English ...

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, it's the perfect time for some love poetry. After all, love and poetry go hand in hand, don't they? Nearly every poet has tackled the concept of love in ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

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Craig Morgan Teicher is a poetry critic and a poet. His most recent book is The Trembling Answers, which comes out in April. America's greatest triumph is its diversity: the multiplicity of peoples, ...

April is National Poetry Month and that’s because of an initiative by the Academy of American Poets beginning in 1996. The Academy claims National Poetry Month is the largest literary celebration in ...

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