Libraries, schools and cultural organizations around Massachusetts and the country celebrate April as National Poetry Month.

No other aspect of the American Revolution is as useful a metaphor for people all along the political spectrum.

Paul Revere was immortalized by Longfellow's poem and became an American icon. William Dawes, the other midnight rider, is ...

For National Poetry Month, we talk with Richard Blanco, whose “One Today” poem was read at Barack Obama’s second inauguration ...

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