Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism ...

Poetry offers something that news and visual imagery cannot in times of crisis: depth over immediacy and meaning over ...

Happy 140th birthday, Robert Frost — you're totally misunderstood. But most people don't realize the great American poet was being ironic when he famously wrote that taking the road less traveled ...

Arriving as the B-side for Allegaeon’s recently released cover of J.S. Bach’s “Concerto in Dm” last month comes a new music video for the band’s interpretation of “In Flanders Fields,” a war poem by ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

If Emily Dickinson haunts this world that so pained her, what might she think of her poems being set to music? Very likely, the reclusive poet would not even venture out of her Amherst home to ...

Jeff Tweedy has turned American poet Carl Sandburg’s “Theme in Yellow” into an airy, idyllic folk song that will appear on Brooklyn musician David Nagler’s upcoming tribute album, Carl Sandburg’s ...

Actress Aditi Malikk shares a touching Christmas moment with her son Ekbir through a special poem that highlights the true ...