Poetic recitation was part of my life before I spoke any language, and I felt an auditory sense of the voices of these poems (though without pure understanding or fluency) as I read them on the page.

As wars sow pain and loss around the world, poet Walt Whitman's devotion to the wounded during the U.S. Civil War should inspire acts of compassion today.

Daniele, a young Italian linguist, found love for the language in the City of Nizams His search to explore rich Urdu culture ...

An imagined chat with Pooh commemorates the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young.” “Pooh,” I said, ...

It’s 8am in the morning in San Francisco and the 82-year-old Isabel Allende has already received two emails from readers asking for advice. “People write to me all the time saying they have diaries ...

MAYBE the most famous poem based on a painting is WH Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts from December 1938. Do you remember it?

Let nature hypothesize man’s indifference to it. Let nature take a turn at saying what love is!

Unfamous, I nevertheless found myself doing just that this past summer ... home to the critic and UC professor Mark Schorer. We’d read our poems. Whiskey was passed around.

I want my money to make money, but I am severely risk averse. I need to level up quickly as I can feel myself getting older as I type this! Back To Top ...

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground. NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but ...