The founders of the original Poetry Circle, active in 1980s and ’90s Bombay, launched an updated forum where poets can meet ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

To adapt Russell Jacoby's definition of contemporary academic renown from The Last Intellectuals, a "famous" poet now means someone famous only to other poets. But there are enough poets to make that ...

The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington is thrilled to welcome Dan Brady as our next guest poet in our Vessels and Passages poetry series. Dan Brady is the author of the poetry collections Strange ...

The great, early-twentieth-century Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy much preferred writing about a culture’s end-times rather than all of the times that came before. This was largely because he ...

Nicaraguan poetry has profoundly shaped the nation's history, serving as a powerful voice during the Sandinista Revolution ...