Some people seem surprised by the idea that poets do any thinking at all. There is a popular image of the poet, for which much of the blame must go to the Romantic poets, as a wild, inspired, ...

And in honor of the month, here’s a “Jeopardy!” style quiz. Remember English Class for $200: “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” studied by many students in English classes, was written by John Keats and is also ...

Exploring the themes of “Poetry, Poetics and Prayer,” the Wake Forest University Faith Forum, moderated by Dean of the Wake ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

Aficionados of the short poem gathered Monday at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York to celebrate the form at the Stephen Crane Festival of the Short Poem. You may know him for the "Red Badge of ...

Billy Collins, one of the country’s most popular poets, had never seen his work in e-book form until he recently downloaded his latest collection on his Kindle. He was unpleasantly surprised. “I found ...