If you'd like to become the next Maya Angelou or Robert Frost, here are some courses that can help you with that ambition. This is a course where you will write your own poetry and have others ...

What prompted the idea for the course? I’ve often found poetry to be a good way to teach law students about the power of particular details, as well as the efficient elegance of compact language. At ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Elisa (Lisa) New is a professor of English at Harvard, with specialities ...

It’s 3 a.m. and the emails are coming in fast and furious. My iPhone is pinging like a Vegas slot machine that’s come up all cherries. What’s the emergency? I had just joined a discussion thread for a ...

Would you like to start to write – or write better – poetry? The Centre for New Writing, Creative Manchester and Carcanet Press have announced a new Poetry Short Course, to be delivered online from 12 ...

Nine seniors at Northside High School are getting the opportunity take a class through Harvard University from the comfort of their homes and school in Lafayette. The high-schoolers are taking the ...

When the job interviewer asked Lila Rutishauser ’24 to describe their professional “weaknesses,” the psychology major didn’t miss a beat. “I’m a perfectionist,” replied Rutishauser. “I have to do ...

Listen to Trace Peterson read her poem “AFTER BEFORE AND AFTER.” Trace Peterson, a poet at the forefront of the push for transgender representation in poetry, will soon pioneer what she says is the ...