Maya Angelou, who died in May 2014, became one of those figures (à la Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln) who ended up with more of other people's words attributed to her than words of her own. As we note ...

In the 14th century, Petrarch wrote about love; in the 17th century, John Donne wrote about God. Today, poet Elise Paschen is turning her attention to yet another most universal of human experiences: ...

Hear Elise Paschen read Emily Dickinson's "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers." Read the full text -- and hear poet Stephen Dunn read his poem "The Sacred." In the 14th century, Petrarch wrote about love ...

Poetry Speaks Who I Am is a collection of poems intended not "for parents, for children, for classroom study or for required memorization," says... 'Who I Am': Poetry Not Wasted On The Young In the ...