But “God” is the Rosenberg I think of most often, with its horrific image of a deity whose “body lodged a rat where men nursed souls.” There is a visceral, spiritual horror to this poem, a revolt ...

Originally from Oregon, Markham was an activist poet, working both to promote poetry in the United States and support the socialist-tinged causes of labor. He helped found the Poetry Society of ...

Poet Jack Smith has served as Dorchester County’s first-ever poet laureate since 2001.

The 10,000-line epic poem, published in 1667, was heavily influenced by Galileo and the scientific revolution of the time. ... Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ isn’t just a poem about man and god.

You will have heard the phrase: "It's enough to make a grown man cry." Ben and Anthony Holden are a father/son duo who did a kind of 'survey' of men-who-cry over poetry. The idea was to ask some ...