"The West Wing" did an episode on a poet laureate back when it was still a widely acclaimed show. The poet part was a subplot. Amid other distractions, the president's staff had to try to talk his ...

It is not often that the name of Enid Blyton, the bestselling children’s author, is mentioned in the same breath or the same sentence as literary giants, such as Homer, Virgil or Dante. The reason for ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential ...