Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, shared an excerpt from “Proof,” an original poem he has written for Zohran ...

Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas ...

The surgeon informed Longfellow that Charley’s wound “was very serious” and that “paralysis might ensue.” Three surgeons gave ...

Where are the writers who work on the dock? Where are stevedores, the longshoremen? The pipe fitters? The electricians?” ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a group continues his work on a new medium — the internet. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1 ...

Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail. SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day ...

You might have memorised and performed a poem in class before. This is called learning a poem ‘off by heart’. It’s a great way to really show you understand the poem and have some fun sharing it with ...

When Yrsa Daley-Ward wrote the poem “bone” years ago, it came to her as many of her poems do: in the morning, just after waking up, and she wrote what hit her, in an attempt to tell the truth about ...

The poem has again been catapulted into a heated debate on immigration. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." These iconic words from "The New Colossus," the ...