Shortly after 7am on April 9 1917, 39-year-old writer Edward Thomas was killed by a shell during the Battle of Arras in northern France. He left a body of mostly unpublished work that has since ...

In Britain, he sought to be “free not to have to puff some prince’s wedding / free to say up yours to Tony Blair.” By Clay Risen After Ted Hughes, the British poet laureate, died in 1998, his friend ...

English speakers may be sleeping on "diaphanous." The language-learning app Babbel asked 1,500 members of the Poetry Society ...

A Dominican American poet argued for poetry’s importance in connecting identities at a festival hosted by Georgetown University’s Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice on March 24. The Lannan ...

From the sonnets of William Shakespeare to the writings of Walt Whitman and the rejuvenating words of Amanda Gorman, poetry is indelibly writ into the fabric of not only popular culture, but the ...

Ben Jonson (1572–1637) was an English poet and playwright who, like his contemporary, William Shakespeare, played a major role in forming English verse and drama. Unlike Shakespeare, however, Jonson ...