Poetry
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These Diaries, of Poet Siegfried Sassoon, Capture the Chaos of WWI
Siegfried Sassoon's poems captured life in the trenches of WWI
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Write Like a Thespian With the Manipulus Vocabulorum, a 16th Century Rhyming Dictionary
The Manipulus Vocabulorum, from 1570, was the world's first rhyming dictionary
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Maya Angelou Was One of the Most Influential Voices of Our Time
Maya Angelou was poet, novelist, educator, producer, actress, filmmaker, dancer and civil rights activist
The Pay Phone: A New Poem by Joshua Mehigan
A new poem by Joshua Mehigan
Café Future: A new poem by David Yezzi
A new poem by David Yezzi
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How Did the Cruellest Month Come to Be the Perfect 30 Days to Celebrate Poetry?
A Smithsonian historian makes the case why springtime is the best time to reawaken a thirst for verse
Mark Twain’s Dream
A new poem by Carol Muske-Dukes
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When Edgar Allan Poe Needed to Get Away, He Went to the Bronx
The author of 'The Raven' immortalized his small New York cottage in a lesser-known short story
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The True Inner Beauty of Fishes
A biologist and a poet team up for a new exhibition at the Seattle Aquarium that features images of bleached and stained fish skeletons
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A Close, Intimate Look at Walt Whitman
A haunting image captures America’s quintessential poet, writes author Mark Strand
“Secure Speech Cipher System”
A new poem by Linda Bierds
A New Poem: “Argument from Design”
American poet David Yezzi’s latest composition
“Pineapple”
A new poem by former poet laureate Billy Collins
“Stem Cells”
A new poem by Amit Majmudar
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Poetry Matters: In Baseball, No Poet Has Yet to Do the Game Justice
Smithsonian historian David Ward umpires the field of poetry, honoring the boys of spring, and calls a strike
“In the Sistine Chapel”
A new poem by Scott Brennan
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Billy Collins’ “The Deep”
A new poem from the former poet laureate of the United States
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"Evolution of the Host"—A New Poem by Robert Pinsky
"Evolution of the Host"—A New Poem by Robert Pinsky
"Confederates Try to Burn New York"
A new poem by George Green
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Who Are the Geniuses Behind Your Favorite Poems?
A new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery unmasks the titans of modern American poetry
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