Poets have been writing about death since the beginning of the written word, and it’s no wonder their poems often appear ...

Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences ... the Bard gives a voice to the dead by narrating to their loved ones what many of them may want to say but cannot.

But the poem is about more than Jordan’s title-winning shot. It’s also about the death of a loved one ... can interact in our memories,” Vogelsinger said. “Students love talking about the way the past ...

What better way to celebrate than by revisiting Irish poet Seamus Heaney's "When All The Others Were Away at Mass," which was named Ireland’s best-loved poem of ... part in our culture is ...

Since 2010, the Improbable Places Poetry Tour, started and hosted by Colleen Michaels of Montserrat College of Art, has been ...

One of my strongest poetry memories took place at a black-tie dinner at the Library of Congress where George W. Bush ...

There is likely no one among the more than two million residents of Gaza who hasn’t been touched by death in the last year of ...

My school days are long behind me, but memories remain. There was one subject that I remember clearly, although not necessarily fondly - the Dun Karm Psaila poems. Putting it mildly, it was ...

We sat there a while, trying to escape the heat of the house. The electricity was off, and it was getting dark. Recently, I ...

Poppies grew on the barren fields of World War One and are used to remember soldiers who died ... especially soldiers, to write poems. They wanted to describe the war so that people at home ...

She shows bodily animalness, its flesh, as well as the weight – literal and figurative – of gaining notoriety for having one: “I remember ... Poem of the Week column appears every Thursday ...