William Ernest Henley's work has inspired world leaders, royalty and even a Hollywood movie. Best known for writing the poem ...

Tolchinsky currently serves as the Creative Writing Specialist at Harvard Divinity School after a year-long stint as the ...

The robin is the one That, speechless from her nest, Submits that home and certainty And sanctity are best. In the summer of 1863 ... which is strongly emphasized by her nearer friends, and which ...

Generations of children have grown up reading A.A. Milne’s stories of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre ...

Auden's friends didn't sugarcoat things either ... He was not a poet of grand romantic illusions but of pragmatism, humor, and an almost brutal acknowledgment of the human condition. In one of his ...

When Yannis Ritsos passed away on November 11, 1990, the world of poetry lost one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.

While this year’s annual poetry concert marked the end of an era in some ways, Weatherspoon ’25 and the eight other student ...

As a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, I recently gleaned three new insights from my oncologist and phlebotomist.

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

A constant source of inspiration for my poems remains, unabashedly, the natural world. Nature so often provides for poetic ...

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.