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 ...

As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky that even native English speakers with college degrees may struggle to get ...

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 ...

Lewis Freedman’s “I Want Something Other Than Time” is one of dozens of poems with this same title, published in his book of the same name. In the forthcoming special edition, each poem is ...

'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.