April is National Poetry Month, so to honor the words and songs of famous poets, the Wednesday List is all about poetry. Scattered across the Smithsonian museums, here are a few of the most ...

World Poetry Day 2024: World Poetry Day is celebrated every year on March 21. The day honours the profound impact that poetry has had on our lives, cultures, and societies throughout the ages. Poetry, ...

During his residency at Fordham in the mid-1800s, Edgar Allan Poe often took long, contemplative walks, but not across the High Bridge that connects Washington Heights to the Bronx, as it has widely ...

It is not often that the name of Enid Blyton, the bestselling children’s author, is mentioned in the same breath or the same sentence as literary giants, such as Homer, Virgil or Dante. The reason for ...

Jane Hirshfield, the award-winning poet, translator and essayist, has lofty ideas about poetry’s role in human lives, which she sets out in her new book about poetry, “Ten Windows: How Great Poems ...

Land of Poets: Chile is known as the Land of Poets because it has produced some of the most influential poets in the world, including Nobel Prize winners Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral. With a rich ...

Poetry has long been used as an avenue for self-expression, and in this case, an exploration of one’s sexuality. What makes these gay poets famous isn’t just their contributions to the literary world, ...