For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A selection from Emily Osborne’s translation of Egill Skallagrímsson’s “Cruel ...

Your little heart ... could not endure.' Born with a serious heart condition, seven-year-old Rahaf suffered cardiac arrest after being rescued from a boat in distress. "On the shore of death, your ...

My guest today on Poetry from Daily Life is Ken Slesarik, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Ken became a writer 17 years ago and after the loss of his son began to focus on grief and loss poetry.

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

One of his final poems, “Facing the Sea, with Spring Blossom,” might be his most memorable, but my personal favorite will always be “September,” in no small part because it was turned into a song by ...

Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January 1939, the month of his death at age 73. In this apocalyptic depiction of ...

I don’t want a dead memorial ...

Life Seasons, a new collection of poems by Gail Lipe, takes you on a journey through the contrasting seasons of life. There ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...