In observance of National Poetry Month, the area’s verse-meisters will gather this week at the Greenbrier Library for the People’s Poetry Festival 2014. The four-day celebration of meter, rhyme and ...

It’s the second coming of Yeats. That would be the late William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), who is suddenly emerging as the poet laureate of TV. One of the Irish poet’s most famous poems is called “The ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images/Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly When my sister was in the sixth ...

April is the cruelest month, breeding/lilacs out of the dead land/mixing Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with Spring rain," wrote T.S. Eliot in the opening lines of his 1922 masterpiece "The ...

April is National Poetry Month, and next week, April 15 to 21, is Young People's Poetry Week. Whether you read your children old favorites by Robert Frost or Robert Louis Stevenson or get them ...

Nothing prevents us reading poetry year-round with children, but still it’s nice to have the spur of an official “poetry month.” In this regard, April constitutes an annual excuse to pull out old ...

Poet and novelist Leithauser (The Promise of Elsewhere) brilliantly elucidates poetry for “the reader who loves words and literature, but maybe feels some trepidation... on confronting a poem on a ...