In the mid-1990s, as Smith looked ahead to the turn of the century, then-President Ruth Simmons urged faculty and staff to dream big about what the college could bring to life on the cusp of a new ...

Literary critic Foster (How to Read Literature Like a Professor) explicates the fundamentals of reading and understanding poetry in this accessible guide designed for the lay audience. He addresses ...

There’s been an influx of books in recent years on how to, or how not to, read poetry. Why do you think that is? Books on what poetry’s about aren’t new. They’ve been around since the early 19th ...

on the rim of darkness. Even more ancient than Horace is the concept of ekphrasis, the poetic description of a work of visual art: painting, sculpture, architecture. In other words, ekphrasis is a ...

April is National Poetry Month. And if poetry isn't your thing, don't worry. A lot of people are with you on that. But if you want to give poetry a shot and it just seems too dense or hard to ...