Poe's work is part of the Romanticism and Gothic fiction literary movements, leaning heavily into the occult and the satanic, ...

Gil Cuadros' long-awaited posthumous new book of short stories and poems, "My Body Is Paper," was recently released by City Lights Books. Although Mr. Cuadros died in 1996 of AIDS at the age of 34, ...

Mississippi-born poet Natasha Trethewey has an exalted résumé — she has served two terms as poet laureate, and she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for her collection “Native Guard” — but her poems are ...

What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Mountain and the ...

Billy Collins believes in the beauty of short poems. He says they show how poetry can squeeze a lot of meaning into tight spaces. His new collection of short poems is called "Musical Tables," and ...

OPUS 7—Sylvia Townsend Warner— Viking ($2). JONATHAN GENTRY—Mark Van Doren —Boni ($2.50). Many a U. S. reader found to his surprise that Stephen Vincent Benét’s John Brown’s Body was readable and even ...