It’s amazing what one will revisit when reading a classic child’s book. While scrolling through a website, I came to a mention of a poem by Shel Silverstein entitled “The Giving Tree.” I read it many ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

News Center 7 is highlighting Black History Month and today we feature Poet david Matthews. (He spells his name in lowercase because he says, “I believe that my name is insignificant compared to my ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

As many as 392 young warriors stepped onto the battlefield — all determined to conquer the series of obstacles set up for ...

“I belong nowhere, have / never belonged ... PA In one poem, she describes the way she turned away from her mother, disgusted by her smell; her mother “gave up once and for all / on the ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Ed Duffy got the call Nov. 10. It was about his son, Zac. He was dead. Duffy had expected this call for years, maybe even decades. Still, nothing prepares a parent to outlive ...

In 1958, the Oppens returned to the United States and George returned to poetry. None of that information is, strictly speaking, relevant to this poem. One of the reasons Oppen gave up poetry was ...

The song “Never Gonna Give You Up” is Rick Astley’s iconic hit, famously associated with the internet phenomenon known as “Rickrolling.” Rick Astley is a British singer who gained ...

In a new memoir, ‘Never: The Autobiography,’ the English rocker opens up about “Never Gonna Give You Up,” the viral meme that followed and how instant fame affected his personal life Luke ...

(Photo by Lorne Thomson/Redferns) With YouTube views nearing two billion and Spotfiy streams closing in on another billion, Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” continually finds new life ...