This week Page-Turner is publishing a series on Walt Whitman. Previously, Jia Tolentino wrote about an unusual use of Whitman’s poetry at a drug court in Alabama, and Dan Piepenbring wrote on ...

Today’s Poem of the Day, “Sea Fever” by John Masefield (1878–1967), has long been a staple of children’s anthologies. It’s the quintessence of the traditional “boy’s poem,” with its call to a life ...

Though a wide expanse of ocean separates Plymouth in New England from Plymouth in England, the two communities are forever linked through the common bond of destiny. Nearly 400 years ago, the Pilgrims ...

frost, a star edges with its fire. About this Poem "Sea Violet" was published in H. D.'s book "Sea Garden" (Houghton Mifflin, 1916). About H. D. Hilda Doolittle was born on September 10, 1886, in ...

Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Julia Schroers, a 14-year-old student from Guilford, CT. You ...