THE natural product of a creed which ignores the æsthetical part of man and reduces Nature to a uniform drab would seem to have been Bernard Barton. His verse certainly infringed none of the ...

Janice N. Harrington worked as a nursing home aide in college, and she drew on that experience to write “The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home.” This book-length collection of poems ...

While visiting the place where Mark Twain penned some of his most famous tales, Illinois Wesleyan Professor of English James ...

Through the challenges of war and distance, a Ukrainian student channels her feelings into poetry written in English. Linda, a high school tutor, shares this powerful poem and the student’s own ...

W. S. Merwin, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, reads his poem “Rain Light” from his home in Hawaii. You can find the text of the poem below. It was at our second meeting, in New York for an interview in ...