Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by I.C. Rapoport/Getty Images Here is a love poem, clear-eyed yet passionate, personal and impersonal in ways I admire: “Cascando” by Samuel Beckett. The poem’s ...

This April, poets and poetry lovers everywhere will join together in cracking open their favorite notebooks and anthologies in celebration of the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month — a yearly, ...

Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library/Yale University/Wikimedia Commons What might an American hero-poem be? Longfellow invented literary folk-narratives, Whitman invented himself.

This poem was written by Clement Clarke Moore, which he named “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” and was published for the first time on Dec. 23, 1823, by an upstate New York newspaper. Clement Clarke Moore ...

I am writing this with great sadness. A very good friend of mine died last week in Hong Kong. He was only 65. He had been enjoying his retirement from the Hong Kong civil service, travelling overseas ...