You are known to the unknown hermit — the stone, the mouth of the dumb, the lonely and the cursed. The stone crowned you as the poet laureate. O your truest admirer is the stone, human as the ...

On his 150th birthday, remembering the poet who compared free verse to ‘playing tennis with the net down.’ Turns out, he taught that way, too. A reporter once asked Robert Frost what event ...

The Friends of William Stafford will celebrate the birthday of the Oregon poet and former U.S. poet laureate at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 26, at the Albany Public Library, 2450 ...

Preparations for the celebration of the seventieth birthday of Achmed Shawki, famous Arab poet, are being made. The celebration, which will take place shortly in Cairo, where Achmed Shawki resides ...

Burns Night is the answer, celebrating the "National Poet of Scotland" and Scottish culture with the sense Aye! Schlafly Tap Room celebrates all things Scottish on poet Robert Burns' birthday ...

On his 80th birthday, we take a look back at an interesting anecdote from Javed Akhtar's early life. Born in Gwalior, he was originally named "Jaadu" after a magical poem written by his father. A ...