Brendan Galvin stopped counting his published poems once he hit 900. The longtime Truro resident has new poems out at 18 different magazines. “It doesn't do you any good to let them hang around the ...

CHILLICOTHE — Sandy Hopper loved writing poetry, even losing her eyesight at 11 never slowed down her passion. Her ultimate goal was to get her works published and even though she died in 1996 her ...

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written during successive waves of bubonic plague focused directly on the effects of ...

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...

In the 19th century, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) stood astride the literary world like a giant. His work included some 420 published poems of every category and genre, among them such ...

When Malcolm Miller died in Salem in 2014 at age 87, he didn’t leave behind much in his public housing apartment with the exception of a stash of cash and over 3,500 poems. Rod Kessler, professor ...

Louisa May Alcott, the author of "Little Women," may have written more works than readers were aware of, thanks to a scholar who made an interesting discovery. Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching ...

TROY, N.Y. — The poem A Visit From Saint Nicholas also commonly known as 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, is not just a part of Christmas history, but also a part of the city of Troy’s history. “As ...