Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In honor of National Poetry Month, we asked readers to join us in ...

The Unbound Book Festival is happening in Columbia this weekend and KBIA has been speaking with some of this year’s featured authors. Brian Turner is a poet, essayist and musician. Last year, he ...

Queen Elizabeth II herself famously said, "grief is the price we pay for love". It’s a beautiful and true statement, but it ...

As resolutely canonical as they seem to us now, the “Holy Sonnets” of John Donne (1572–1631) flicker with some uncertainty in the imaginary museum hall of English literature. We think we know them.

"Is this the right time for that?" "Emily's name isn't Rachel" "What time should we leave for the airport?" "Would it be possible to stop volunteering me for things?" And now, he's followed it up with ...

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 ...

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John Kenney says his poetry — a term he uses loosely — is poetry in the same sense that "Arby's is farm-to-table dining." His new collection is called Love Poems (for People with Children). "What time ...