The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa ...

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896. “In thousands of ...

The racism Sulter experienced would strongly register in her work, which melded a striking artistic sensibility with ...

Gaza “If I must die / let it bring hope / let it be a tale,” Refaat Alareer wrote in his 2011 poem If I Must Die. The work ...

Reading “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” has become a ritual for millions. Who actually wrote the poem, however, is the ...

Little Orphan Annie's spirit was very impressive, and it helped turn around a whole city at Christmas time during the Great ...

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.” — Max Ehrman, American poet, lawyer Hello ...

The Center Did Not Hold About 100 years ago, William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called “The Second Coming” which has become ...

As Christmas began to evolve into a family holiday, the image of Santa changed as well. Now, his jolliness came from the ...

This beautifully curated collection will fill your days with Christmas spirit, making poetry an enchanting part of your holiday tradition. For the first time, this beautiful collection brings together ...

Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem.  I don’t remember ...