He was no Robert Frost. Academics and poetry afficionados considered him a lightweight, his body of work simplistic and sentimental. But from Americans struggling through two world wars and the ...

Poet Edgar A. Guest once said that success is failure turned inside out. His iconic poem conveyed a message that success is ...

Poe’s most famous piece is “The Raven.” Once published, in the early months of 1845, this poem made him an overnight success. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7th, 1849. The doctor labeled his cause of ...

He was the poet laureate this city never knew it had. We just never realized it because his iconic drawl so seamlessly blended into the background here: whether it was hearing him give the weather ...

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“Oh, shit,” an off-camera voice said. Mediate reported that an “audio operator accidentally slid the wrong fader,” catching another guest in the s-bomb. It’s not clear who said it or if they were ...

Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...

Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, was shot just after 10 p.m. last Saturday, Kannapolis Fire and Police wrote in a news release this week. Welch is the same Salisbury, North Carolina man who in December ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, was shot at around 10pm Saturday after he pulled a handgun on two Kannapolis Police officers and failed to ...

But in the hands of Cohen, the worlds collided further, and the lyrical goalposts were widened. Cohen’s poet-come-musician trajectory has undoubtedly influenced this. Opposed to crafting a poetic ...