In the mid-1990s, as Smith looked ahead to the turn of the century, then-President Ruth Simmons urged faculty and staff to dream big about what the college could bring to life on the cusp of a new ...

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Poetry can be a source of distraction, of beauty, of truth. It can guide us when it gets difficult to manage the intensity of what we're feeling. So it's no surprise that people sought out poetry for ...

As a teacher of undergraduate creative writing classes, I'm often forced to admit that it has. I remember, as a young person, being posed the question, "what kind of music do you like?," and coolly, ...

McCrae has been exploring the afterlife in his poetry for several years now, and here his reimagining of Dante’s Inferno is ...

I began writing this on Mother’s Day, as my heart seemed buried by the weight of my son’s recent diagnosis of an incurable, debilitating disease –– an inherited illness that remained silent for ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Ada Limón is officially the United States's 24th poet laureate. When she ...

on the rim of darkness. Even more ancient than Horace is the concept of ekphrasis, the poetic description of a work of visual art: painting, sculpture, architecture. In other words, ekphrasis is a ...