Black History Month traces back to 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. In that pivotal year, Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland founded ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your ...

What is the cost of poetry? Must poets be melancholic, doomed and self-destructive? Or is this just a myth? Novelists can be stable, savvy, politically adept and in-control, but poets should be ...

Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, is a place of pilgrimage for literature lovers. More than 100 poets and writers are buried or have memorials here. And, so began a tradition of burials and memorials ...

It is difficult to imagine something truly poetic and beautiful generating from war and conflict. But the First World War produced some of the most gifted and progressive authors, poets and ...