Michael Lind, a journalist, poet, and novelist, skewers the current state of American poetry and places the blame squarely at the feet of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and American academics who have warped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Aurélia Durand / For The Times) In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d ...

Phillis Wheatley, the first formerly enslaved person to have a book published, is understood by many as “the mother of African American literature, and a luminary of United States letters,” as noted ...

When the world feels dreary and dark, one might go to the Harvard Book Store and pick up a collection of poems. The act of reading poetry is transformative; it can bring light and optimism in the ...

Among contemporary American poets, Joseph Donahue is an underrecognized master. For years, he has been accumulating a prodigious body of work in which a searching vision and a refinement of ...

Close your eyes. Picture a room full of movie stars. Now picture a room full of U.S. presidents. Now picture a room full of poets. Having trouble filling in the faces? Poets are not the world's most ...

This encyclopedia provides a surprisingly complete collection of entries on American poetry and poets from the early colonial to the contemporary era. Included are both major and lesser-known poets ...

From Oscar Wilde in the 1880s to Adrienne Rich in the 1950s, LGBTQ+ writers have been at the forefront of poetry for centuries. Through meter and rhyme, poetry has continued to serve as an outlet for ...