“Will the near future necessitate warning labels in front of all published material?” asks Robert Atwan, in the foreword to The Best American Essays 2014. Atwan is worried about trigger warnings, ...

In his introduction to “The Best Loved Poems of the American People,” which was first published in 1936 and remains in print today, writer Edward Frank Allen put down some thoughts intended to remind ...

Poems by African-American poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Kwame Dawes, Rita Dove, Langston Hughes, Tyehimba Jess, Kevin Young, and more. Photos via Flickr/Gage Skidmore, Flickr/Burns Library, ...

American Civil War poetry that sheds light on a neglected chapter of the era's literary history has been recovered and made freely available online after 150 years. '"Will not these days be by thy ...

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.

Opening with the proto-feminist Puritan poems of Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) and closing with the reorienting poems of Joy Harjo of the Muskogee Nation (1951–), Chicago-born poet and literary critic ...

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NPR's Jennifer Ludden interviews Robert Hedin about the volume of poetry he edited: Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terrorism. The editor says the body of ...