Today’s lively graduation-week Poem of the Day, by our poetry editor, Joseph Bottum (b. 1959), author most recently of the poetry collection “Spending the Winter,” forms the third movement of a ...

Between 1898 and 1905 — a teenager, still living at his St. Louis home — the young T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) studied at the Smith Academy, a college-preparatory school run by Washington University. And ...

At the commencement ceremony for Harvard's Graduate School of Education, masters candidate Donovan Livingston blew his peers away with a spoken word poem on oppression, and the long road which led ...

Graduation poems ask for balance — hope without sugarcoating, humor without standup, wisdom without the sermon. From the Avengers, you learn that saving the world requires sacrifice, coordination, and ...

Poet Parker Barry wants to be remembered as someone who, through her words, can connect with people’s struggles, hopes and dreams. The Wellington High School graduate wrote a short poem as a tribute ...