In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan ... during Poe’s brief time as a student at the University of Virginia, when he read a long, amusing ...

To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe speaks about the important role mothers ... Would Be a Falconress by Robert Duncan is a fairly long poem, but it's so beautiful. The mom in the poem is painted ...

For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...

American novel as great titles renewed the art of storytelling and had the power to influence upcoming writers for decades to ...

There are events and festivities scheduled all week in New York City to celebrate the centennial of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ...

Yes, long-time fan theories have held up ... identity of Haymitch’s girl – Lenore Dove, named after the Edgar Allan Poe poem. Perhaps you jumped to the conclusion that she was the daughter ...

Edgar Allan Poe knew what he was doing when he used the raven instead of some other bird to croak “nevermore” in his famous poem. The raven has long been associated with death and dark omens ...

I’ve long felt that ... I loved Edgar Allan Poe and I memorized everything I could find. And I loved Paul Laurence Dunbar—still do—so I would memorize 75 poems. It was like putting a CD ...

W hen first we meet the title character of Ron Currie’s superb “The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne,” it’s 1968 and ...

The hours we spent watching this movie, multiple times over the years, each viewing an afternoon-long event ... Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe (“Should I come rapping at your chamber door ...