Ted Kooser, of Garland, Neb., served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2005.

His first collection of poems had just come out ... was finally “discovered” and “celebrated” by other poets such as Ted Hughes and Andrew Motion as among the greatest poets of the ...

Emma Tenzler recounts three chance encounters from history which went on to redefine literature ...

Hope is the thing with feathers’ is a poem by Emily Dickinson; ‘Grief Is The Thing With Feathers’ is a flighty, wonderful ...

Or rather, talking about Sylvia Plath has become a way of talking about other ... her poems themselves, issues which are precisely to do with what it is we are allowed to talk about. Those who write ...

At the end of 2024 South African poet Ingrid de Kok published Unleaving, a significant collection of substantial new poems.

Crow never becomes a gripping character; he's too sternly abstract, too hectoring, too much of a visual effect in search of a ...

The 14th edition of the Luxor African Film Festival (9-14 January) honoured the Senegalese director Moussa Sène Absa, known ...

A new exhibition of rare works and artefacts from Yorkshire poet Ted Hughes has opened at Heritage Quay at the University of Huddersfield. Ted Hughes: Making of a poet laureate showcases a wealth of ...

At the time of her death, Sylvia Plath was working on a second novel. However, the manuscript mysteriously disappeared, along ...