69.9966% OFF$23.98 at Amazon Recommended by: Grace Schulman Originally published in 1321, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

The Irish poet’s work was rooted in a close feeling for the local—but reached out to embrace a world of readers.

In recognition of the centennial of the beginning of World War I, YaleNews recently met with David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, to talk about some of the most noted poets of that period ...

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. National Poetry Month is here! We’ll be celebrating and sharing all things verse throughout April with poets from across Southern ...

Seamus Heaney died this morning, but his poems continue to be very much alive — and in them, he is first and foremost a poet whose poems you feel in your mouth. Pronouncing the words as he describes a ...

Robert Gray, one of Australia’s greatest poets, has died. He was regarded as an outstanding landscape poet and, alongside Les ...

This week, Bob Dylan finally gave the Nobel people an answer to their offer of the Literature Prize—he’s happy to accept, but he’s afraid he’s too busy to go pick it up. Everyone’s having a good ...