In the mid-1990s, as Smith looked ahead to the turn of the century, then-President Ruth Simmons urged faculty and staff to dream big about what the college could bring to life on the cusp of a new ...

Literary critic Foster (How to Read Literature Like a Professor) explicates the fundamentals of reading and understanding poetry in this accessible guide designed for the lay audience. He addresses ...

As faculty members of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, Eleanor Wilner and Maurice Manning have, between them, decades of teaching experience, many published collections of poems ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Ada Limón is officially the United States's 24th poet laureate. When she ...

April is National Poetry Month. And if poetry isn't your thing, don't worry. A lot of people are with you on that. But if you want to give poetry a shot and it just seems too dense or hard to ...