Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

Kesey explores familial dynamics in this 1964 novel set in a fictional town on the Oregon Coast during a logging strike. His ...

Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad – and it shows. Just as the title promises, the prose of this novel sings ...

When Shakespeare wrote his tragedy Coriolanus he was coming off the back of an outrageous run of successes. In just a few years he’d penned Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. This ...

Haiku written by local children as part of the Rain Poetry project by nonprofit PA Humanities will soon be displayed on ...

A video reading of the poem, titled "Love Letter From the Afterlife" went viral after Gibson's passing was announced -- with ...

I am more with you than I ever could have imagined,” Gibson says in the poem, written while facing a terminal illness.

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf.

Author Roseanna White shares her perspective, through the lens of historical events, on why we should exercise our freedom to read.