As part of our series Where Poetry Lives, poet laureate Natasha Trethewey joins Jeffrey Brown to… "It's not just about the work on the page, it's about where you put your feet when you get out ...
Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. William Butler Yeats, widely considered one of the greatest poets of the English language, received the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature. His work was greatly ...