Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds Poetry Group. This sheet of paper 1 This sheet of ...

“Poetry,” said William Wordsworth, “has never brought in enough to buy shoestrings.” Neither has Poetry (circ. 5,000). In all its 43 years as a bellwether of U.S. belles-lettres, while printing such ...

In W.H. Auden’s brief, bitter poem “Epitaph on a Tyrant,” the despot is portrayed as “greatly interested in armies and fleets,” and “When he laughed respectable senators burst with laughter / And when ...

Emma Lazarus now bestrides Morningside Heights as well as New York harbor. Last night, at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, this poet who celebrated freedom was inducted into the American ...

“Poetry is the art of depicting in words all rhythms of life,” says Maria Sassi, a prize-winning poet and playwright and the first poet laureate of West Hartford. The words in her own poems flow in ...

Over the next several weeks, the Swampscott Reporter and the Swampscott Unites Respects and Embraces, (S.U.R.E) seek poems that celebrate diversity from members of the Swampscott community. The ...

Connecticut Poets’ Corner is a monthly feature highlighting the poetry of Connecticut authors. Poets are selected by Ginny Lowe Connors, former poet laureate of West Hartford. West Hartford poet Pat ...

Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, is a place of pilgrimage for literature lovers. More than 100 poets and writers are buried or have memorials here. And, so began a tradition of burials and memorials ...

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Those who do not understand poetry think it alters (as Shakespeare said of false love) on impulse, changes its essence with the introduction of new linguistic or philosophical movements, academic ...