"In This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good and" was originally published in the modernist literary magazine Chimaera in July 1916. Marianne Moore was born on Nov. 15, 1887, near St. Louis. She ...

Billy Collins, one of the country's most popular poets, had never seen his work in e-book form until he recently downloaded his latest collection on his Kindle. He was unpleasantly surprised. Make us ...

In her May 25 Thursday Opinion essay, Josie Glausiusz explained how poems offered her an anchor as she lost her 12-year-old son to brain cancer. “With just a word or a phrase, a poem can reach the ...

Ashutosh Rana is one gem of a person who knows the art of penning pain to bring out hard-hitting poems. And for the very same reason, his poems often go viral on social media platforms. Turns out, ...

Tom Waits is widely acknowledged as the poet par excellence of the dispossessed. From his first album, Closing Time in 1973, through Blue Valentine, Rain Dogs, Mule Variations and many more, he has ...