True about Anne Sexton’s grandmother—but to extend Auden’s cantankerous question, “Who cares about thrushes?” (Thomas Hardy did, and now I do.) “Who cares about daffodils?” (Wordsworth did, and ...

William Wordsworth, a key figure of the Romantic movement, believed nature profoundly shaped human character and imagination.

Q: My 10-year-old son wrote an autobiographical poem as a schoolassignment. The assignment was to write about what he dreams,wants, and fears. He wrote, in part, “Dreams I get killed by aliensâ€- ...

A new omnibus compiles the poet’s books and unpublished work, including his two-part autobiographical masterpiece, “Genesis.” By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...

MANCHESTER — The Northshire Bookstore in Manchester will host Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews as she reads from "Bread and Circus," her powerful ...

A Baltimore poet is on the way to becoming the country’s most famous substitute teacher. Kondwani Fidel wasn’t even an hour into his first day subbing at Baltimore City College high school when a ...

As is his custom at the annual senior thesis reading, creative writing adviser Rob Farnsworth blessed the graduating Bates poets and novelists whom he has advised during the academic year. A poet and ...

A Bellingham man convicted of five robberies recited a poem about his addiction, his crimes and his path to recovery Thursday, before a judge sentenced him to prison. Dennis Jeffery Ridley, 63, ...