The feeling of being in love can make you do some things you'd never think about doing before; singing, writing your names in a heart on your notebook, and even getting into poetry. Poetry, both ...

If terrible students often grow up to be writers, it may be because high school rewards qualities literature seeks to upend: unthinking diligence, arbitrary respect for authority, acceptance of petty ...

Unlike many well-known poets, E. E. Cummings and James Laugh­lin ­didn’t write with metaphysical or philosophical ambition. But that ­doesn’t mean their poetry doesn’t matter. Cummings wrote verse ...

Half a century ago Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel recorded a song based upon the poem “Richard Cory.” If Simon had not written the song, maybe no one under the age of seventy would be aware of the ...