Poetry
“Black Hands”
A new poem by Amit Majmudar
"Pattern and Snarl" – A New Poem by Amit Majmudar
Read the latest poem that was "inspired by a delight in design and pattern"
Summer Olympics Look, a Poem
Poet J. Allyn Rosser's new piece on watching the Olympic Games
Document Deep Dive: The Musical History of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Was the national anthem really set to the melody of a drinking tune? Take a closer look at the original manuscript of Francis Scott Key's song
The Chicken and the Egg
A new poem from the Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet
Venice by Kay Ryan
The former U.S. poet laureate writes about the Italian city
70 Years of “Slipping the Surly Bonds”
Whether you love it or hate it, John Gillespie Magee's "High Flight" remains the most enduring of aviation poems
Forget Edgar Allan Poe? Nevermore!
Cities up and down the East Coast claim author Edgar Allan Poe as their own and and celebrate his 200th birthday
A Jazzed-Up Langston Hughes
A long-forgotten poem about the African-American experience is given new life in a multimedia performance
Adventures of a Portuguese Poet
Wild-hearted Luis Vaz de Camoes’ years abroad are not well-known, but that hasn’t lessened his legend
Jukebox
Young Talent
Mighty Mouth
Spoken-word artist Mayda del Valle brings to life "democracy writ large in poetry"
The Angler's Song
A poem by Izaak Walton
The Epic of Gilgamesh Translation
Translated by Stephen Langdon, University of Pennsylvania
Epic Hero
How a self-taught British genius rediscovered the Mesopotamian saga of Gilgamesh after 2,500 years
Frost Bite
A recently discovered poem by Robert Frost has brought fame—and controversy—to an English student
Famous Once Again
Longfellow reaches his bicentennial; here's why his poems became perennial
Evildoer
The Beowolf monster is a thousand years old, but his bad old tricks continue to resonate in the modern world
35 Who Made a Difference: Maya Angelou
By singing of her own hardships, she has given strength to others
35 Who Made a Difference: Wendell Berry
A Kentucky poet draws inspiration from the land that sustains him
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