He researched the life of Max Ehrmann, the Hautean who penned the iconic “peace poem” — “Desiderata” — a century ago. Dalgleish aimed to write a book on Ehrmann. Dalgleish even snapped ...

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sappho (the poetess) and Alcaeus. What are the top poems inspired by ancient Greece? Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Walters Museum Poetry stands as one of humanity’s oldest art ...

The earlier they learn this while you are around the better, for life is unpredictable. You are not sure what it will throw ...

Amanda Gorman, a Los Angeles native and the United States' first National Youth Poet Laureate best known for her poem "The Hill We Climb," took to social media Saturday to express her condolences ...

She quoted from Max Ehrmann’s poem “Desiderata” (“Be careful and strive to be happy”), declaring happiness something “you have to work at,” and cited William Butler Yeats on “the ...

I wish I had done so with my old friend. (The Desiderata is the inspirational prose poem that begins “Go placidly amid the noise and haste…” and which became a famous and fashionable poster to be ...

Jan. 16, 2025 Here is some of the greatest, most practical advice I’ve heard on how to start reading poetry: “A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written. We read A ...