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Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection of poems that included the well-thought-out 403-line poem “Tamerlane,” which ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

Here’s how he describes the experience in the new poem “How I Wrote Certain of My Books”: What is that? Borzutzky obviously means to be funny — he is a satirist, after all — but he’s ...

An art and poetry exhibition centered on squirrels might sound like mere fluff, but there’s more to “Squirrel Shenanigans: ...

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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 ...