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It's the third week of June. Today, Anthony Doerr shares a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson called “Bed in Summer.” Stevenson was a much-loved Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, best known for ...

Poetry aesthetics may be a new frontier for neuroimaging research, but already it’s clear that there is a wealth of pleasure to be gained from engaging with poems. Five ways to celebrate National ...

Written in response to the “Red Summer,” a period of lynchings and violence against blacks that swept the USA in 1919, McKay’s poem urges readers to be brave and fight back in the face of death.

At the end of the summer, you wrote bad poetry. Inexplicable, s—ty, broken-down poetry that couldn’t even be called poetry. It was humiliating.

In the summer of 1961, so the story goes, the poet Allen Ginsberg visited the writer William S. Burroughs in Tangier. The two were close friends and fellow Beatniks, but Burroughs hadn’t yet read ...

Assiduous readers of our Poem of the Day feature will, by now, have made more than a passing acquaintance with the poems of Sara Teasdale (1884–1933). In a brief career, cut even shorter by her ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

What does alliteration mean? Check out these real-world examples in ads, songs and poetry. Metaphor examples. Metaphors are often used in poetry, ... "Summer's a knife." ...

“Thirty Summer Poems and Conversations about a Murder”, Dr Roy’s latest offering, which will hit the markets in the first week of March 2023, is a slim book that can be read within a time ...