The statue by renowned sculptor Ruth Abernethy imagines McCrae at the moment he looks up from the notebook where he has just signed his name to what would be published as "In Flanders Fields." ...

A Canadian physician, Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae wrote a poem which became famous. The first lines: “In Flanders fields the poppies grow among the crosses row on row….” A soldier from ...

Hours after @TheRoyalFamily Instagram account unveiled a new portrait of King Charles to commemorate Burns Night—the ...

Amanda Gorman, a Los Angeles native and the United States' first National Youth Poet Laureate best known for her poem "The Hill We Climb," took to social media Saturday to express her condolences ...

Service members who have gone through Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape training, or SERE may get flashbacks from the trailer for the upcoming zombie horror film by Danny Boyle, “28 ...

Rick Lupert, a poet, songleader and graphic designer, is the author of 28 books including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every ...

Jan. 16, 2025 Here is some of the greatest, most practical advice I’ve heard on how to start reading poetry: “A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written. We read A ...

What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time.

The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to ...

The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from Babylon. Form is the physical structure or pattern of a poem.

We present to you this collection of poems honoring the Virgin Mary written by Thomas Merton ... There is no bird song there, no hare's track No badger working in the russet grass: All the bare fields ...