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Who Are the Geniuses Behind Your Favorite Poems?
A new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery unmasks the titans of modern American poetry
A new poem by Coleman Barks
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”
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Poet J. Allyn Rosser’s new piece on watching the Olympic Games
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Anthem For America Music Guide
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
A new poem from the Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet
The former U.S. poet laureate writes about the Italian city
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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
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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
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A long-forgotten poem about the African-American experience is given new life in a multimedia performance
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Adventures of a Portuguese Poet
Wild-hearted Luis Vaz de Camoes’ years abroad are not well-known, but that hasn’t lessened his legend
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Young Talent
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Spoken-word artist Mayda del Valle brings to life “democracy writ large in poetry”
A poem by Izaak Walton
The Epic of Gilgamesh Translation
Translated by Stephen Langdon, University of Pennsylvania
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How a self-taught British genius rediscovered the Mesopotamian saga of Gilgamesh after 2,500 years
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A recently discovered poem by Robert Frost has brought fame—and controversy—to an English student
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Longfellow reaches his bicentennial; here’s why his poems became perennial
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The Beowolf monster is a thousand years old, but his bad old tricks continue to resonate in the modern world
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