As an English professor and a poet, I face this question every day. The death of poetry would put me out of a job. Each year, I teach a required seminar called Studies in Poetry, in which I must ...

During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

Professor George Herbert Palmer '64 will give the first of a course of eight lectures under the auspices of the Lowell Institute this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The general topic of the series is "Some ...

As you might expect from a U.S. poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera has a way with words. When we talked to him about his appointment, he shared his ideas on the act of writing, some of his ...

Poetry books have become one of the least checked out collections in a library; often being left behind until there is an academic assignment or a quote is needed. However, when it comes to poetry, it ...

NO ONE EXPECTED the huge response that "Can Poetry Matter?" generated, especially not its author. I wrote the essay to address -- as directly and candidly as possible -- the increasing cultural ...

Professor George Herbert Palmer will give the third of his lectures on "Some Types of English Poetry" at the Lowell Institute, 491 Boylston street, Boston, this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The subject for ...