William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. NO MAN is an island, as John Donne ...

KENT, Ohio – Nearly a decade ago, Valora Renicker, an associate professor of visual communication design at Kent State University, invited her colleague David Hassler, director of Kent State’s Wick ...

From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving ...

Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, ...

Normally when I take a bus across Central Park, I am absorbed by the astonishing fact that in 1853 New Yorkers – always known for “getting and spending” – decided to devote 843 acres of their little ...

Ryan Van Winkle has been announced as StAnza Poetry Festival’s new artistic director and will be responsible for delivering strategic thinking as well as creative vision, while maintaining StAnza’s ...

Baseball, its late commissioner Bart Giamatti once observed, is designed to break one’s heart. Indeed, the game’s most iconic poem recounts not the home team’s triumphant victory or the exhilaration ...

O, yes, we honor Marianne Moore’s take on poetry--”there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle”--and, yes, we, too, dislike the gimmicky naming of months. But April is National Poetry ...