"Gray's Elegy" is a poem that most older adults in the UK can quote, if only a few lines. In my ideal school curriculum, it would still be required reading. Musical, eloquent, moral, the "Elegy ...

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Sidney Keyes was a few weeks old when his mother died of peritonitis, and his father, Captain Reginald Keyes, returned with the child to his own father's house. SKK, commemorated in this week's poem ...

my back to where I know we are headed. Natasha Trethewey was named U.S. Poet Laureate earlier this year. She has written four collections of poetry: “Thrall,” “Domestic Work,” “Bellocq’s Ophelia” and ...

Too proud to die, broken and blind he died The darkest way, and did not turn away, A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride On the darkest day. Oh, forever may He lie lightly, at last, on the last, ...

Natasha Trethewey was named the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States in June, becoming the first Southerner to receive the honor since Robert Penn Warren, in 1986, and the first African-American ...

A version of this story ran in the March / April 2024 issue. To submit a poem, please send an email, with the poem as an attachment, to [email protected]. We are looking for previously unpublished ...