I was reading some poetry to my dog, Badger, the other day and happened upon a poem by Billy Collins that got me thinking. Just to be clear, I don’t ...

Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad ...

A few minutes, a few lines, and poet for the people Jacqueline Suskin can offer her customers hope, confidence or a vision of who they are. And it has changed her life.

The poem is short, clocking in at just 149 characters in total, easily cut to under 140. It is iconic, quickly recognized if faintly remembered by anyone who took a high school English class.

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“He’s Just a Little Boy” is a decades old poem recounting a young boy at the plate, swinging and missing with the bases loaded, and the crowd starts riding him for his failure.

This poem reminds us that so much about grief is in the fragments of memory and detail that a loved one leaves behind. Note the double meaning in the first line of “you fixed me” and “you ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case ...