For Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the road that began at age twenty led inexorably to the consolations of wombats, whiskey, chloral, and the culmination of the grave. From our vantage point, this poem falls ...

The turn of season into fall can be a reflective time - a time of passage and decline. Well, today, we turn to poetry to mark the seasonal shift with the new U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright. He's ...

Have you looked up at the skies recently? While we hop between puddles and huddle against a fresh wind in the Yard, fall blossoms. With the sweeping away of summer, the world begins to look like a ...

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and decline, beauty and loss. In earlier traditions, from Shakespeare to Keats, ...

Across centuries and continents, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror of human experience: a time when beauty and decay, fullness and farewell, coexist. From Shakespeare’s trembling sonnets to ...

NFL Films president Steve Sabol, who passed away at age 69 on Tuesday, played a big role in the glorification of the Oakland Raiders’ tough-guy image. It was Sabol who penned a poem for NFL Films in ...

Fall is fast approaching, and in case the anticipation of crisp air, sweaters, and pumpkin-flavored everything isn't enough to get you amped up for the best time of the year, a few fall poems should ...

May Sarton was a novelist and an avid keeper of journals, but she considered herself a poet above all else. Novels and journals, she said in 1983, are concerned with growth over time, but “the poem is ...

This Valentine's Day, the BBC celebrates the nation's love of poetry with a season of programming to inspire lovers and poets everywhere, together with an online competition to search out budding ...

Though hardly a household name today, Scudder Middleton (1888–1959) rose to brief prominence as a writer, publishing three books of poetry in 1917, 1919, and 1927. His short story, “The Flames of ...