Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "The Dead" with animation by Juan Delcan of Spontaneous. Noted for their intelligent humor,...

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“But Poetry's dead,” they say “And Song and Drama, Painting too! No Muse. No Bard. To write in verse and meter's simply wrong and rhyme is only for a greeting card. There's nothing more to...

Sharp trickster, how we loved to watch you tie our muddled minds into a knotted maze. Your jests and jokes did twist each question, "Why?" till heart and head were drugged in deadly daze. ...

Used wrapping paper, plastic cups, faux hair, cliff hangers, instant coffee, child-proof caps, repeated jingles, static, squelch, dead air. Oh, every other driver, cell phones, snaps, all...

We drove to see a play I'd only read. I'm really glad my seat was on the aisle. Act V, scene iii all eyes were watching, while old Lear holds in his arms Cordelia, dead. The only dry eyes...

Oh mighty fallen Titan, once so great, with ancient purple cheeks now cracked by tears, has fatal time so caught thee through the years and kept thy backbone to this rigid state? What art...