Keats was one of the pillars of British Romanticism, and a romantic figure in other ways as well. He was only 25 when he died, in 1821, of tuberculosis and also — according to legend — of the ...

When Ada Limón became the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2022, she took that moment she used that moment to reflect on poetry's power to connect — or to reconnect — people to the world around them and ...

A year-long project by the nation’s poet laureate focuses on the natural world and what’s at stake due to climate change. Ada Limon’s "You Are Here" exhibition will take her to National ...

AN ORDINARY LIFE: Poems, by B.H. Fairchild. (Norton, $26.95.) “This is the world. All there is of it,” Fairchild ends a poem evoking his father’s Kansas machine shop, a frequent touchstone ...

Before I go on, let me say that I’m not knocking weddings at which this poem was read—as someone who walked down the aisle in a dark purple dress in a rented theater, and had a seven-minute ...

The Poetry Foundation honored 11 poets with the Ruth Lilly Prize this year, ... Acknowledging that both the Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine have been pillars of American literature, ...

Ernie Rea and guests discuss the enduring appeal of TS Eliot's religious poetry. It's 50 years since TS Eliot died. His later work, most notably the Four Quartets, is informed by a Christian Faith ...

Bensalem High School students made a mark over the past month. Over 30 students were recently inducted into the National ...