It may be true, as we noted last May, that we have entered an era when nobody much reads Alexander Pope (1688–1744). And it may be true that the highly structured verse for which Pope argues in his ...

[Noozhawk’s note: This poem was shared by a reader in response to Noozhawk’s 12-day, six-week special investigative series, Prescription for Abuse. The author’s full name has been withheld.] Who is ...

Our Lady of Allen, South Dakota be with us. Our Lady of turquoise towers and water pumps, of barbiturate skies barreling o’er dry granaries, bucolic at the continental pole of inaccessibility. Our ...

After taking part in a poetry programme for BBC School Radio, Seamus Heaney and I repaired to the George pub, round the corner from the BBC, with the producer Stuart Evans and his wife, Kay. We then ...

Today, Oct. 28, 2021, is the 135th birthday of the Statue of Liberty. No doubt some perfunctory things will be said on the occasion. We need to think far deeper about what the monument — and ...

During the 1970s and '80s, Breytenbach's work in Afrikaans placed him among South Africa's best-known poets; his imprisonment by the apartheid regime (recounted in his 1985 memoir, The True ...

The writer and historian, Lady Antonia Fraser wrote a poem to the Queen following her death. She read the tribute, The Corgi's Lament, to the BBC.

If we don’t think of Washington Irving (1783–1859) as a poet, that’s because poet is one of the few things Irving didn’t try to be. Travel writer, biographer, diplomat, editor, copyright-law pioneer, ...