If you’ve ever talked about “the birds and the bees” or referenced “the best laid plans of mice and men,” then you’ve inadvertently quoted some of the English language’s most famous poets.

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

We’ve got you covered ... 1912 poem “Out of Debt,” Jamaican American and Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay writes from the perspective of a father who rejoices in being debt-free on ...

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Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

underlining the significance of free speech and reproaching the Gujarat police authorities for seeking to criminally prosecute a person for ostensibly delivering a message of peace through a poem ...

about my quotes, poems, it feels good that they connect, it means what I am thinking is in the right direction.” Ask the 31-year-old the poets who have shaped his literary world and he names ...

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And as promised, the first question the senator fielded from Whoopi Goldberg was a blunt, “What were you thinking?” Schumer defended his decision, telling the hosts that not allowing through ...