IN “Instrument of Immortality,” the opening Dante’s type long poem, in Umar Yogiza Jr’s first collection, Instrument of Immortality, the author-like narrator asserts: “I am the hidden; the unseen ...

Yes, and it’s been around since at least 1880. Thomas C. Zimmerman, editor of the Reading Times, translated Clement C. Moore’s immortal poem into the Pennsylvania German dialect in 1876. “Die Nacht ...

Born in New York City in 1779, Clement Clarke Moore became a noted lecturer and writer. Yet his life would merit little more than a footnote in New York’s history, except for the one poem for which he ...

With these words, Allen Ginsberg’s immortal poem “Howl” gave a voice to the Beat Generation. The film “Howl” tries to capture the essence of the poem and examine Ginsberg’s (James Franco, “127 Hours”) ...

The summer before I started high school I happened upon a little paperback titled “Immortal Poems of the English Language,” edited by Oscar Williams. At the time, I had — barring nursery rhymes — ...