Poets Online - the blog

Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad  on an ancient Egyptian mummy. This was the first time that a Greek literary text ...

Venus at the Mirror Mirrors often show up in poetry in symbolic roles, as self-knowledge, distortion, doubles, and thresholds. Let's loo...

Memorial to Caedmon at St. Mary's Churchyard. The inscription reads, "To the glory of God and in memory of Caedmon,  the father of ...

The premise of a New York Times piece titled  "What's With That Voice People Use When Reciting Poetry?" is that there’s a dis...

I just finished listening to Nicholson Baker’s 2009 novel, The Anthologist. It is a meta-fictional exploration of the creative process and ...