In today’s Poem of the Day, the 1894 “A Vagabond Song,” the reader can discern Carman’s hunger to reach back to early romanticism, seeking something deeper in the commonplaces of sentimental thought.

BOSTON — Libraries, schools and cultural organizations around Massachusetts and the country celebrate April as National Poetry Month. In honor of that occasion, please enjoy the official state ...

The Song of Songs is the only work in the Bible that focuses exclusively on human-to-human love, not human-to-divine – at least on the surface level of the poem.

The album closes with the sublime and eternal Poem for the Sunrise, a song that takes up the dualism between music and images, and where the protagonist, becomes the dawn that hides the mystery of the ...

The Portland record store and label Mississippi Records turns 20 this year. To help mark its anniversary, it teamed up with the Hollywood Theatre to hold a local song-poem writing contest ...

Poem of the Day: ‘A Song for Mardi Gras’ Rolfe Humphries’ poem, imagining a lover setting aside his beloved, is ambiguous. Is he taking Lent as an unassailable excuse to end the affair? 'Mi-Carême, ...

The poem and the bill to make it the state’s official rhyme got a hearing before the Committee on State Administration in March 1981.

The Song of Songs is the only work in the Bible that focuses exclusively on human-to-human love, not human-to-divine – at least on the surface level of the poem.