Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

Joseph Stiglitz (February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, and a ...

America is in the midst of an extended birthday celebration. That is right. America is celebrating its 250th birthday (the ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on ...

They raised a glass to Burns, read some of his poems and ate haggis, deeming the gathering so successful that they decided to gather again on his birthday. They turned that event into an annual ...

After extensive research, Dr. Noshit Sherlock of the University of Common Sense in Logicville concluded that statistically, the more you celebrate your birthday, the longer you live. #mindblown Ah, ...

Poe’s most famous piece is “The Raven.” Once published, in the early months of 1845, this poem made him an overnight success. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7th, 1849. The doctor labeled his cause of ...

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...