Gun ‘that ended Van Gogh’s life’ sells for 162,500 euros
The revolver with which Vincent van Gogh is believed to have shot himself sold for 162,500 euros at a Paris auction — nearly…
A debut poet from Greensboro, North Carolina, has received a prize named for one of the United States' greatest writers.
Who says poetry is dead? It is pretty much alive and thriving, in the United Kingdom at least, whose poetry sales hit a record £12 million.
The late founder of the Dead Poets Society of America can be inducted to the society of fallen bards now that he's now a published poet.
NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose rapturous odes to nature and animal life brought her...
Other winners include Jeffrey C. Stewart's "The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke" (nonfiction) and Justin Philip Reed's "Indecency" (poetry).
A letter written by nineteenth century French poet Charles Baudelaire announcing his intention to kill himself sold at auction on...
NEW YORK (AP) — Poet Jorie Graham is receiving an award from the Library of Congress. Graham is this year’s...
In a red cape and with dark hair blowing in the wind, Antara, the famed 6th-century Arab poet born a slave, is now a superhero.
NEW YORK (AP) — Pulitzer Prize winners Natasha Trethewey and Rae Armantrout are among those on the poetry longlist for...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A nephew of Pablo Neruda said Thursday that money owed by Chile to laboratories abroad is...
