Their mission was to research and promote the achievements of Black Americans and other people of African descent, including famous black poets. During Black History Month, the black community ...

By exploring the lives, opinions and deaths of a variety of famous poets, the book builds up a picture of what it is that makes poets want to write in the first place. Here are seven facts about ...

John McCrae, a surgeon in the Canadian Army, wrote possibly one of the most famous pieces of war poetry, In Flanders Fields, while observing the scenes outside a dressing station near Ypres in 1915.