Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential ...

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 ...

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 ...

Juan Felipe Herrera, son of migrant farm workers in California, has been named the next U.S. poet laureate. Herrera, 66, whose parents emigrated from Mexico, will be the nation's first Latino poet ...

There's a kind of romantic myth around poets that the good ones die young. In this program we'll hear the work of Dylan Thomas, Jennifer Rankin, Keith Douglas, Rupert Brooke, Lord Byron, Sylvia Plath, ...

Famous poets (tortured or not) have taken inspiration from Swift’s music. Can you match the poem to the song? By Jennifer Harlan Taylor Swift is many things: a pop superstar, a business mogul, a cat ...

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 ...