George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.

I was trying to get down to the root where consciousness springs up under pressure from conflict and pain and power.” ...

Why do we humans make and listen to poetry? “The world is charged with the grandeur of God” — everything in it is worthy of our attention. A poet fixes our gaze on some God-created being or experience ...

Every day during July, English professor Joe Heithaus will write a poem for The 30/30 Project, an undertaking by Tupelo Press. Each poem, starting with his inaugural endeavor, “Questions on the First ...

'You look as though you wished the place in Hell,' My friend said, 'judging from your face.' 'Oh well, I suppose it's not the place's fault,' I said.

Writing poetry is difficult enough, but translation presents a new set of challenges. Khaled Mattawa, a professor of literature at the University of Michigan, won a MacArthur Genius Grant this year ...