By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Children's poet Constance Levy, a former educator who lives in St. Louis, encourages readers of all ages to tell their own ...

"It would be easy to write a motivational speech asking everyone to come and spend money locally but i think a poem ...