I’d listened to my father talk ‘bout days of World War II. And how he served his country. He wore the Navy Blue.

“It began with me having very outlandish ideas,” she recently recalled. “At one point, I thought we should rent a plane, and put poetry on little native seed packets that would fly out of the plane ...

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 ...

If you wish to listen to the poems individually, these can be found below. Download a composite image inspired by the poems of Michael Rosen (jpg) imageDownload a composite image inspired by the ...

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

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 ...

Each of these titles will stick with you and, perhaps, make you more likely to realize when you’re not seeing the truth. These books dispense practical advice on managing one’s ambitions—or ...

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

Poetry by contemporary Southern writers was the topic of USC Aiken’s latest “Aiken in the Alley” lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 6 ...

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

Greg Rheaume said his pepère, Louis Calix Depatie, was a ‘gentle, kind and giving man’ and his mentor, so he wrote this ...

Orpheus and Eurydice, that famous live-dead couple, also get poems in After Image. There are many intense bursts of emotion ...