This week's poem, popularly known as "Tichborne's Elegy", was written either by a terrorist or a Christian martyr, depending on your point of view. Chidiock Tichborne was born into a devout Catholic ...

"Gray's Elegy" is a poem that most older adults in the UK can quote, if only a few lines. In my ideal school curriculum, it would still be required reading. Musical, eloquent, moral, the "Elegy ...

my back to where I know we are headed. Natasha Trethewey was named U.S. Poet Laureate earlier this year. She has written four collections of poetry: “Thrall,” “Domestic Work,” “Bellocq’s Ophelia” and ...