Lord Byron, who was once described as "mad, bad and dangerous to know," and Edgar Allan Poe, who spent a miserable 18 months at Fort Moultrie long before he became a well-known poet, have had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

QuickMuse is a new site where well known poets battle it out in a fifteen minute race to pen the most compelling text inspired by a thought provoking quote about art. The live event is archived so you ...

LITTLETON — Mrs. Heidi MacGregor’s fourth-grade class at the Russell Street Elementary School has been learning about the poet William Carlos Williams. Our teacher read us some of his poems and taught ...