We want people who are invested in poetry to be satisfied and engaged in it. But, while we don’t want it to be simplified or pandering, we also want it to be accessible to people who are not. I mean, ...

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His life has been full of details that border on the unbelievable. Throughout his life, he has not held any significant ...

It’s the middle of April in twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem that once was memorized by generations of American ...

Many examples of riddles from this period are in Latin, but a collection of approximately 95 poems, written in Old ... might be referred to through the metaphor of water turning to bone.

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On April 7, trickster planet Mercury finally ends its retrograde. The clouds will part — and what once felt like impossible ...