Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

Choosing the right words was a gift that Everett Hoagland, the first Poet Laureate of New Bedford, had and used to create a ...

Langston Hughes appears again on our list of inspirational poems, and rightfully so. He was the first African American person to make a living by writing poetry, turning his dreams into a reality.

The album, out on 7/11 from Blue LLama Records interweaves classic poetry with timeless music. We spoke with Harris about the ...