AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy — The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were felt around the world. That included an American free-lance journalist and entrepreneur living in ...

We are like flowers and don’t last forever. Quietly like thunder, beautifully like a river, Like a cloud, you passed through our world. You were right; Rivers will always outlive us. Grief always ...

Jay Hopler died last week. Illness streaks across this poem from his final collection — but also love. By Jay Hopler Selected by Victoria Chang I always remember these lines in Jay Hopler’s debut book ...

Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...

Somewhere in the mushy folds of that thing you call a brain, there no doubt lurks some ancient rhyme just waiting for the chance to roll off your poetic lips, astonishing friends, delighting strangers ...

A light touch and a wry tone are what readers typically remember from the poetry of Alexander Pope (1688–1744), but he was absurdly talented, a man from whom words poured out in meter and rhyme as ...