According to Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." For poetry lovers everywhere, a great stopping-off place on the World Wide Web is the official site of the ...

"The West Wing" did an episode on a poet laureate back when it was still a widely acclaimed show. The poet part was a subplot. Amid other distractions, the president's staff had to try to talk his ...

It is not often that the name of Enid Blyton, the bestselling children’s author, is mentioned in the same breath or the same sentence as literary giants, such as Homer, Virgil or Dante. The reason for ...

Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs its depths. By A.O. Scott What poetry can offer in a time of vitriol and hate ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential ...