After witnessing a crucial episode of the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that, set to the melody of an 18th-century English drinking song, captured the patriotic picture of the American ...

Arthur Sze, one of the most acclaimed poets of our time, is celebrated for exploring the natural world, the human condition ...

Derek Sheffield sat down with The Seattle Times to talk about the role of poet laureate, his love of language and what he’s ...

The poem became a war cry in India’s freedom struggle against British rule. Ram Prasad Bismil was himself a talented poet who wrote in Urdu and Hindi, under the pen names Ram, Agyat and Bismil.

The identity of the “Woman of the High Plains” was revealed in 1979—but five years later, Nettie Featherston was forgotten ...

To celebrate Father’s Day, The Conversation U.S. asked Philadelphia anthropologist, playwright and poetic ethnographerKimmika Williams-Witherspoon to reflect on a poem she recently performed to accomp ...

David Remnick writes about Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election, and what President Barack Obama’s reaction to the new political landscape is.

It was just 30 days after Hurricane Katrina marauded across New Orleans when artist Jeffrey Holmes and his then-wife Andrea ...

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