Poetry great Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California, on this day in history, March 26, 1874. Frost spent the first 11 years of his life in San Francisco until his father, journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., died of tuberculosis,
Artyom Kamardin, a Russian poet, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for reciting verses against Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Tverskoi District Court in Moscow convicted Kamardin on charges of undermining national security and inciting hatred for reading anti-war poems.
It’s been almost 175 years since the death of Edgar Allan Poe — one of the most recognizable poets in American history. While Poe was best known for his work in the horror genre, there is much more to know about him
Comment on this storyComment It’s National Poetry Month, so in schools across the country, teachers will be sharing poems with kids. Maybe some Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky or Joyce Sidman. Maybe even some William Carlos Williams or Emily Dickinson. In my
US free speech organization calls on Egypt to release well-known poet who is serving 5 year sentence
A U.S. free speech and literary organization has called on Egypt to release a well-known poet and songwriter who is on a hunger strike to protest his five-year incarceration. PEN America demanded Thursday that Egyptian authorities release Galal al-Behairy, who was first