Two Cincinnati poets captured the spirit of the Civil War. Now, an Anderson Township man wants to find the poem that reflects ...

Our columnist looks at what it all meant. By Elisa Gabbert I wonder if there has ever been more equivocation about the word ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

The Book of Psalms presents two daunting challenges to the Bible blog. First, because it’s just a series of poems, in no particular order, there is no compelling reason to start at Psalm 1 and read on ...

Bloom made his critical reputation with a book called The Anxiety of Influence, where he argued that poetry proceeds on the misreadings by strong poets of their predecessors. In this massive anthology ...

National Poetry Day, observed each year in October, serves as a reminder of poetry’s enduring power to stir emotions, spark ...

Do you ever just look back on all your experiences and see the beauty in them, both good and bad? If I had to guess, I would say most people forever hold certain experiences with disfavor, and ...

Paul Dalgarno is author of the novels A Country of Eternal Light (2023) and Poly (2020); the memoir And You May Find Yourself ...

COLUMBUS (WCMH) – Sydney Allateef may be small in stature but she is big in talent. The 5-year-old kindergartner was the first to be featured on NBC4 Today’s “Little Big Shots” segment. Al-lateef ...