It’s been said that nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless they've had a dog. Billy Collins agrees, and he ...

I loved the student reporting on Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s “Oh Shoot” sessions because I love poetry and basketball. Poetry ...

After a viral moment at a bank, Nico Patino’s poems are making him one of Southern California’s buzziest new artists.

When the northern lights dramatically lit up skies across the country earlier this month, poet Silas House was among those of us dazzled from below. When the northern lights dramatically lit up skies ...

One by one, poets shrug their way to the stage, pausing for a breath before diving in. Without fail, someone from the crowd offers the rallying cry: "Let's go, poet!" The room answers in its own ...

“[c]learly Rosy had to go or be put in her place.... The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was in another person’s lab.” —James D. Watson, The Double Helix (1968) I am the ...

In our fraught modern world, poets are rarely celebrities. But celebrities sometimes get their poems published. Certain people (disgruntled scribblers) may scoff at this. What do Megan Fox, James ...

A recording of Andrea Gibson reading “Love Letter From The Afterlife” — a tender poem written for their wife, Megan Falley — is going viral following their death this week at the age of 49. The ...

Months before Andrea Gibson, Colorado's renowned poet laurate, died of terminal ovarian cancer, they sat down for their final television interview on an episode of NBC Chicago's "It's OK to Ask ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

The poem was discovered by researcher Leah Veronese. University of Oxford While conducting research in the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, a scholar discovered something remarkable: a ...

Robert Frost presented himself as a simple man. Not for him the literary circles of London or the stilted dinner parties of Brahmin Boston. Nor was he at home in academia. He dropped out of college ...