Below, we're taking a look at 60 Rock Songs Inspired by Books and Literature, for the most part limiting it to one entry per ...

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ Let America Be America Again ” by Langston Hughes. What do you notice about the ...

Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics.

However, her ability to weave in lines from a poem created by a character in an obscure J.D. Salinger short story, which came out nearly two decades prior to her own birth, speaks volumes about the ...

That short poem depicts the deprived, sustained only by vision ... The voice in this collection ranges from classic poetic ...

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

Poetry by contemporary Southern writers was the topic of USC Aiken’s latest “Aiken in the Alley” lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 6 ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Humanity’s unshakable attraction to warfare and its ramifications are unmistakable themes that run throughout this powerful ...