Sidney Keyes was a few weeks old when his mother died of peritonitis, and his father, Captain Reginald Keyes, returned with the child to his own father's house. SKK, commemorated in this week's poem ...

"Gray's Elegy" is a poem that most older adults in the UK can quote, if only a few lines. In my ideal school curriculum, it would still be required reading. Musical, eloquent, moral, the "Elegy ...

Natasha Trethewey was named the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States in June, becoming the first Southerner to receive the honor since Robert Penn Warren, in 1986, and the first African-American ...

A love affair gone wrong. A marriage soured. The little malices with which we afflict each other when we know the relationship is over but don’t have the courage to end it. That ache, despite all the ...

Too proud to die, broken and blind he died The darkest way, and did not turn away, A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride On the darkest day. Oh, forever may He lie lightly, at last, on the last, ...

my back to where I know we are headed. Natasha Trethewey was named U.S. Poet Laureate earlier this year. She has written four collections of poetry: “Thrall,” “Domestic Work,” “Bellocq’s Ophelia” and ...

Learning to mourn with Susan Howe, Gertrude Schnackenberg, Anne Carson and C.D. Wright. Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of ...