Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This week marks 157 years since Walt Whitman’s poetry first appeared in ...
(NEW YORK) -- "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." These iconic words from "The New Colossus" — the 1883 poem written by American Emma Lazarus are etched in ...
The original title of this year’s Foley poetry contest winner was, “After the Molt, the King of Crabs, Feeling Tender, Addresses the Folk.” On first reading, the poem seemed messy, too strange, ...
Mexico’s Supreme Court has ordered Sergio Witz, a poet and professor of literature, to face trial on charges of “offending national symbols” after he published a protest poem that proposed using the ...
Expert astrologers have paired each birth month with a classic poem that reflects the essence of one's soul. Read on to ...