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 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 ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

Incorporating a short poem into your wedding not only beautifies the ceremony but also leaves an indelible mark on the hearts ...

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 ...

Louise Glück, the former US Poet Laureate and 2020 Nobel Prize awardee whose deceptively simple poems considered and revealed truths about love, loss and survival, has died at 80.

Warner has turned out a magnificent production in this story [by Michael Jacoby] based on Tennyson's immortal poem and historical facts. Foreword explains that history was consulted for background ...