This short poem was collected by Mary Austin, an early-20th-century American poet of the modernist movement. Although she was not Native American, she worked to preserve and publish Native ...

Director of the Classics Institute at Dakota State University, he has written over 800 essays, poems, reviews, and short stories in publications from the Atlantic to the Washington Post. His poetry ...

This poem captures the depth of the African American experience, tracing it back to the earliest civilizations, and highlighting a sense of pride and endurance. 2. “I, Too” (1926) ...

These poems by Latin American women reflect a multilingual region Sandra Guzmán once heard an alarming statistic: Every 14 days, an Indigenous language dies around the world. So she created a new ...

Photo of Jim Morrison by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Morrison also recorded his poems in the studio in 1969 and 1970, and several posthumous books of his previously unreleased poetry have ...

These and other well-loved poems, overlooked in the first garnering, appear in the volume of 1919. This second collection, largely made up as it is from recent publications, stands in a greater ...

Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art Sandra Jordan, Twentieth-Century American Art, Barbara Sturman. ABRAMS, $19.95 (80pp) ISBN 978-0-8109-4386-5 ...

Even a real poetry lover might find a 1,132-page anthology a bit daunting. But The Oxford Book of American Poetry is less for heavy lifting and more for browsing, in pursuit of old and new poetic ...

A new biography and a career-spanning collection of Anthony Hecht’s work show how fluent he was in his period’s style, and hint at the ways it might have restrained him.