69.9966% OFF$23.98 at Amazon Recommended by: Grace Schulman Originally published in 1321, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

The Irish poet’s work was rooted in a close feeling for the local—but reached out to embrace a world of readers.

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

In recognition of the centennial of the beginning of World War I, YaleNews recently met with David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, to talk about some of the most noted poets of that period ...

Poetry has existed since people began using language. Even before literacy, poetry was the art of putting words together, utilizing rhythm, chant and recitation to convey a story or some information, ...

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. National Poetry Month is here! We’ll be celebrating and sharing all things verse throughout April with poets from across Southern ...

Robert Gray, one of Australia’s greatest poets, has died. He was regarded as an outstanding landscape poet and, alongside Les ...

1914 was a bad year for politics but a great year for poetry: you could argue that it was the year that Modernism hit its stride. 2014 was pretty great, too. These are the books that I predict will be ...