Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poetry resonates with deep emotion and wisdom. His famous work, In Memoriam, explores loss and faith.

Vendler cast her searching eye on individual poems by great poets in the final work of her life, Inhabit the Poem: Last ...

Natasha Trethewey turned to poetry to make sense of what happened after her mother was kidnapped and murdered more than three decades ago. In 1985, Trethewey’s stepfather pleaded guilty to the crime ...

Poetry is not a practical thing. It's inefficient. It leaves too much space on the page. Its lines are uneven and unpredictable. Its edges are sharp as shards of glass, and what are shards of glass ...

Six years ago, area poet Sierra Leone had an inspiration about how to encourage herself and other women who wanted to find time to write even when, with work and family obligations, it seemed ...

Fred Lerdahl proposes a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.