Claude McKay, one of the most influential figures in the Harlem Renaissance, left behind a rich collection of poetry that ...

Myra Sklarew, a poet and teacher who found inspiration for her graceful, meditative verses in the natural world, her Jewish heritage and her early years working with rhesus monkeys at a research lab, ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...

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Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

Michael Longley, who has died aged 85, was a poet whose graceful and careful work made him one of the most cherished writers in Northern Ireland and, for some, the English-reading world. Longley’s ...

The world we live in is a wasteland of words, but reading poetry reminds us that language can be used with precision and ...