Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), a promising student of the English composer Charles Villiers Stanford, thought of music, not poetry, as his primary vocation.It was in the trenches in France during World War ...

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety.

Now, Rackin has published her fourth poetry collection, “In Time” (Word Works Books, 2025). She describes the collection as poems of grief and discovery, of connection, and the strange time ...

'Travel in Time' by Tanya Contos was picked by Boston.com as a winner of our Book Club's writing contest. Read her poem on Boston.com.

When Susan Greenstein Prescott was a high school senior, her English teacher, Fred DiMeo, gave her a terrifying assignment: Recite a poem in front of the whole class. "I had a mild stutter.

Written in 1935, the poem has been published for the first time, ... Old English, alliterative meter, and Lewis's writing at its best," said Cossio.