Many of this year's books are sad. It's hard not to read the current political turmoil, the icy sense of dividedness, into these poems, though many of them deal as much with private as with public ...

In much the same way, Cavafy’s personal poems often concern men growing old as they reflect on shimmering, partially recalled passions, as in “Since Nine—” when one of his many aging monologists sits ...

Chico >> Long before Hallmark, Blue Mountain and American Greetings, folks wrote their own personal verse in cards and letters to express their love on Valentine’s Day. While that tradition dating to ...

For millennia, humans have looked to the skies in wonder, fear and longing. Senior Library Assistant Julie Swarstad Johnson captures this wide array of poetic sentiment resulting from space ...

Halsey is ready to share her more of her story with the world using poetry. The 26-year-old star can now add author to her resume because she just released the poetry book, I Would Leave Me If I Could ...

“We know of only five scrolls of this heroic size by the artist Wen Zhengming [1470-1559] and this is the only known example with a personal poem,” says curator Stephen D. Allee. Freer and Sackler ...