A feature once common to almost every newspaper in the country in the first half of the 20th century has long disappeared from today’s newspapers. The newspaper poem could be found on editorial pages ...

Edgar Guest was born on Aug. 20, 1881, in Birmingham, England. His collections of poetry include "Just Folks" (The Reilly & Lee Co., 1917) and "When Day Is Done" (The Reilly & Lee Co., 1921). He died ...

The most famous poet in American history sold a million copies of his book, back in the days when a million was a lot. He had his own weekly radio show and even, for a while, his own television show.

He may be largely forgotten today, at least partly because his approach to dialect writing is to our eyes and ears “close to unreadable.” But the online journal Slate has a reminder from poet Robert ...

Books by two authors who were immensely popular in their day are up for bids in the silent auction of old and rare books sponsored by the Friends of the A.K. Smiley Public Library. The authors are the ...

If Edgar Guest , a renowned poet, were alive today, he would tell the congressional supercommittee how to reach a consensus and resolve our country’s fiscal crisis. Maybe he already has, since he ...