Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was an American poet, editor, reviewer, and translator. Her poetry is an innovative mixture of common and exotic things and creatures, forthright and imaginatively playful. Marianne Moore was one of the most interesting poets w...

Marianne Moore made a new kind of verse, yet she denied that she was a poet. She worked with words: they were her trade. What she wrote was called poetry, she said, because there was no other category in which to put it. There are, in fact, no commonly a...

Marianne Moore made a new kind of verse, yet she denied that she was a poet. She worked with words: they were her trade. What she wrote was called poetry, she said, because there was no other category in which to put it. There are, in fact, no commonly a...

You won't find any volumes of poetry in Don Scheidt's house. A retired tax collector who is quick to point out that the IRS is not a very poetic organization, Scheidt does not enjoy reading haiku, iambic pentameter or free...

When you're done loading your iPod with Better than Ezra and Carlos Santana, why not try a little Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams?Recordings of the poets' works are available for free through PennSound, an online audio archive developed by professors at the University of...

Thousands of dissidents silenced under Argentina's military dictatorship — tortured, executed and made to "disappear" in the so-called Dirty War against dissent — are gaining new voice through poetry.A new book, "Poesia Diaria" ("Everyday Poetry"), tells the victims' story through the memories and verse of...

Slam poetry got a fresh twist when three Victorian-era re-enactors read from such poets as William Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson in a setting that was fitting for the event _ a 19th-century stone mansion.Actor Craig Johnson, wearing a gray frock coat typical of the period,...