What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

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Smith have held the role, which has become more public-facing. Robert Pinsky, who served in the late 1990s, launched the “Favorite Poem Project,” in which everyday Americans were filmed reading ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee is best known for his novels and screenplays, but a new volume from The Works of ...

Slam poetry in Chicago is getting a shot in the arm from Frankie’s Tee, a media platform and talk show founded in 2024. Hosted by west-side natives Tanya “Tee” Smith and Frankie Fabre, Frankie’s Tee ...

In honor of Black History Month, The Crimson’s Arts Board reflected on some of their favorite poems written by Black authors. Whether discovered as an online post or as part of a course ...

Swampscott Conservancy Next month is National Poetry Month — 30 days to celebrate poets and poetry! New England has had its share of famed poets — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different. By Amelia Nierenberg ...