It's one of those poems people reach for in times when it feels like the sky is falling. It's also generally regarded as one of the great poems of the 20th century. "September 1, 1939," as its title ...

It’s not Auden’s best poem or (since “Funeral Blues” appeared in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral) his most famous. It’s not even one he cared for: “The most dishonest poem I have ever written” he ...

Sitting in a bar on 52nd Street, WH Auden read in the “folded lie” of a newspaper about the accession of Danzig to the Third Reich. The poem he would write about the events of that night is the ...

I started my second read-through of Jonathan Ward’s “Swallows in Late September,” published by outgoing Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Executive Director Joshua Bodwell’s operation, Harwood & ...

For September, the Poem of the Month prompt is: Write a poem about work, in honor of the month in which we celebrate Labor Day. You could tell us about a past or present job, about tilling your garden ...

Davidson redeems a bitter season with the story of a personal encounter that is also an encounter with poetry September Castles First hints of our condition manifest: Spite in the wind, mist-gauze ...