It wasn’t something to say out loud growing up in Liverpool, but I fell in love with poetry as a young boy and I’ve been faithful to it ever since. For years I even wrote some poems of my own, ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was one of the most important poets of the Victorian period. He was the poet laureate - the country's official poet - from 1850 until his death in 1892, making him the longest ...

Amanda Panda and her friends Sarah the Sloth and Audrey Otter had a great deal of time to relax and chat as they watched the interesting humans stroll by their homes at the Big City Zoo. “They are ...

If asked to picture the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), a reader is likely to imagine an old man with an enormous beard wearing a Spanish cape and black sombrero. The widely ...

If you’ve ever sat alone at 2 AM with a heavy heart, you’ve probably realized that Harivansh Rai Bachchan wasn’t just a "poet", he was someone who understood the messy, beautiful, and sometimes ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Against the Encroaching Grays,” by C. D. Wright, and his own poem “Almost Home.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “A Worldly Country,” by ...

The rhythm of the opening lines, “Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward,” creates a relentless beat which is continued throughout the poem. This rhythm echoes the sound and pace of the ...