Atlanta is home to some of the most accomplished and celebrated poets in the country. In the past few years, local poets have ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a poem could do…,” how poetry changes our brains, and what you might get out ...

Explore 8 powerful but lesser-known poems by Maya Angelou that reveal her depth, spirit, and poetic genius—perfect for ...

It's not easy expressing your adoration for the woman in your life. Select some love poems for her and tell her how you ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

Bahr undertook a complete re-examination of the tome, complete with spectroscopic analysis and mathematical investigation, to ...

At a recent New York benefit concert, Patti Smith was joined by Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Depp, Flea, Karen O and many more to raise money for charity.

now long dead. But the act of remembering always takes place amid natural as well as personal history: Merwin’s poetry has an ecological awareness that he sharpened through decades of work ...

Poetry has been a feature of feminism for as long as the movement itself has existed ... take a look at this 1987 performance from Maya Angelou’s famous poem “Still I Rise” Maya Angelou ...

Spanning centuries, these poems reflect deep perceptions of China, shaped by both observation and imagination. Throughout the long history ... China has been famous for its traditional medicine ...

I mean that less as praise — though it is a long-time favorite ... to admire the needlework of the poem — what we might call, to quote another famous poem about a tiger (William Blake ...