Analysis: The poem opens with irony, suggesting that massive destruction often begins in a way that feels absurd or incomprehensible. The casual “huh?” juxtaposes the gravity of the bomb, highlighting ...

The brainchild of former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, the National Favorite Poem Project was launched in 1997 to celebrate the sheer pleasure of poetry with the public ...

April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the beauty and power of poetry. This monthlong celebration, established ...

On Wednesday, the Stanford Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures hosted a colloquium featuring Stuart H. Goldberg, who discussed the process of poets signaling, and readers interpreting, the ...

Maybe not surprisingly, romance was the most popular genre in a whopping 22 states, followed by a tie with fiction and poetry, which are the top-searched literature genres in nine states. According to ...

Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Poets find inspiration and purpose from different sources and create their styles differently. There are many reasons a ...

On Thursday, April 3rd, the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, Jennifer Militello, came to visit Saint Anselm College. An event was held at 7pm in the Grappone Humanities Institute where she performed ...

April is National Poetry Month. Celebrated across the U.S. and Canada, the observance spreads appreciation and awareness for ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...