On Oct. 22, students and faculty gathered in the Halton Reading Room of J. Murrey Atkins Library to share poetry and prose at the English Learning Community's (ELC) fourth annual ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s ...

Women of all years filled the Sohn Residence lobby Oct. 20, curled up on couches, perched on armrests, and sitting cross-legged on the floor listening intently to Assistant Professor of English ...

Human speech is rich with rhythm. As a person speaks, certain syllables are naturally emphasized, whereas others blend into the background. In this way, regular conversation becomes poetic. Language ...

Who said that? You look around, dazed and dumbfounded, then drop gently to the ground.

Queens College hosted a poetry reading by Kimiko Hahn, a distinguished professor at the Flushing-based college who was ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a group continues his work on a new medium -- the internet.

Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the things we’re grateful for is a time-honored tradition, but it can be hard to put those feelings into words.

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your ...