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

Somewhere in the middle decades of the 20th century, advanced poetic taste decided that sentimentalism in general, and the sentimentalism of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) in particular, was ...

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Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

Poems written by older adults living with memory loss will be on display at the Ross Library in downtown Lock Haven throughout November. The exhibit celebrates a poetry-writing program led by Centre ...

Hannah Lipman explores her devotion to art and plans for her tenure as Poet Laureate of Bethel with columnist Rick Magee.

If we do not end exactly where we begin, still everything does come to a conclusion, and sometimes that’s near the place it started. All journeys need an ending. All circles long to close. Today we ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...