Codford Tea Rooms in Wiltshire has been saved after staff member Lizzie Leigh, known as Britain’s Tea Poet, read a heartfelt poem to the local council. The venue, under threat from a change-of-use ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

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John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full of reflection and digression and probing.

Mary Oliver was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who made nature and everything around you feel sacred, and she turned solitude into friendship. Here are 8 pieces that feel like deep exhales, like ...