Massachusetts was one of only three states without a poet laureate, according to the Library of Congress, joined by New ...

Diane Sun is a sophomore at Harvard University studying philosophy and linguistics.

One could call it beginner’s luck or perhaps Phoebe Jessen had a touch of the Bard buried within her soul for a while now, ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on ...

A follower of Emerson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson became a passionate abolitionist and supporter of John Brown.

"Ireland is a sanctuary" Joseph Hoban explores Ireland's enduring love affair with musician Marianne Faithfull, who has died ...

The essayist playfully contrasts the apocalyptic, fundamentalist worldviews of her childhood with the teeming abundance of ...

Alexander Ostrovskiy explores spiritual poetry as a path to self-discovery, inner connection, and the search for meaning.

Discover how a dandelion grows from a delicate fluffy seed into a bright yellow flower, enjoy beautiful poems which lift the ...

Hope is the thing with feathers’ is a poem by Emily Dickinson; ‘Grief Is The Thing With Feathers’ is a flighty, wonderful ...

Although Emily Dickinson is now considered one of America’s greatest poets, during her lifetime she was better known for her ...