Poets.org: Welcome to the Guest Editor Q&A, hosted by the Academy of American Poets. I’m Mary Sutton, senior content editor at the Academy, and I’m here today with the Guest Editor for November, Laura ...

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

Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by ...

She suggested I write a poem. Poetry, she said, would allow me to explore the painful subjects I'd been avoiding and ask ...

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

How a stay in Warsaw and a father’s funeral became the source of a poem the famous Russian poet wrote for his entire life, in ...

They still do flourish: that poem became a sensation and the poppy became a symbol of remembrance. From the end of October, poppies—sold by the Royal British Legion ( rbl) to raise money for veterans ...

When I was a ninth-grader growing up in Encanto, I used to struggle with poems that just wouldn’t work out. After a whole day ...

Charles Taylor’s big-hearted, misshapen book on philosophy, poetry, and our never-ending quest to heal the wound of modern ...

This is the story of a literary giant whose poetry is indeed music to the ears. This is the story of a man who, according to ...

Camille Saint-Saëns "Danse macabre" includes frantic violin calls and bone-chilling percussion. The deadly dance reminds ...