Chidiock Tichborne (1562–1586) died at age 24 — his bowels cut out while he was alive, before being hanged, drawn, and quartered by Queen Elizabeth’s executioners for his part in the Babington Plot to ...

Once, years ago, I visited the home of a family whose son had died in childhood, and watched a video tribute the parents had made to the life of their child. Weeping, I resolved not to buy a camcorder ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place, hooks ...

I must visit; it’s urgent, can’t they see? How can I grieve after losing your pictures? The bereaved must cling to memories, They say. But what if they aren’t tangible? I know I do remember all your ...

Her XLNC in an XTC. Her hair was soft as silk, not YRE, It gave no Q, nor yet 2P to view: She was not handsome; shall I tell U Y? U R to know her I was all SQ. L8 she was, and prattling like A J. They ...

my back to where I know we are headed. Natasha Trethewey was named U.S. Poet Laureate earlier this year. She has written four collections of poetry: “Thrall,” “Domestic Work,” “Bellocq’s Ophelia” and ...

Videogames and poetry haven't always gone hand in hand. We're still a long way from Master Chief breaking into a Coleridge soliloquy. But game developers Ichiro Lambe and Ziba Scott have edged us a ...

Natasha Trethewey was named the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States in June, becoming the first Southerner to receive the honor since Robert Penn Warren, in 1986, and the first African-American ...