Maya Angelou’s legacy goes beyond the body of work she shared with the world during her lifetime. Her legacy as one of the greatest writers of all time also embodies the ability she had to hold on to ...

The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by ...

Most people need something to break up the monotony of a long work day, and is there anything more cathartic than reading a poem? Lately, I've gotten into the routine of reading poems during my lunch ...

As she consumes them, Homer writes, they shriek, stretching out their arms in “horrifying death-throes.” It’s a gruesome ...

The National Book Foundation announced on Thursday the winner of the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize, its annual social-impact-through-literature award. Each year the foundation honors one ...

I had big plans to write about Stacey Tran’s poem, “Soap for the Dogs,” which I love dearly, but I couldn’t find it anywhere online. Then I wanted to write about Zbigniew Herbert’s funny prose poems, ...

Nine years ago, Nicole Sealey was startled to realize she had been so busy writing poetry, thinking about poetry and talking ...

If you’ve read any commentary about younger people, none of the following statistics will surprise you. Approximately 19% of Americans who are 12 to 19 years old are depressed – higher than any adult ...