69.9966% OFF$23.98 at Amazon Recommended by: Grace Schulman Originally published in 1321, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

In recognition of the centennial of the beginning of World War I, YaleNews recently met with David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, to talk about some of the most noted poets of that period ...

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. National Poetry Month is here! We’ll be celebrating and sharing all things verse throughout April with poets from across Southern ...

This week on the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with actor and author John Lithgow about his work and the enduring power of great poetry. Lithgow, best known for starring in NBC's hit show 3RD ROCK FROM ...

Veterans Day — originally Armistice Day — was renamed in 1954 to include veterans who had fought in all wars. But the day of remembrance has its roots in World War I — Nov. 11, 1918 was the day the ...

Once, in my youth, I took a graduate philosophy seminar I thought would be about law and justice: Instead we discussed the semantic implications of punctuation marks. After class, I found myself ...

The Depot is hosting its next quarterly poetry night Friday, themed around love as a form of protest and joy even in uncertain times. “Love as an Act of Resistance” is the theme, part of an ongoing ...