Poetry has dropped so far out of the cultural mainstream in the U.S. that even seeing a great poem mangled, manhandled or misunderstood almost makes us smile. Every time a high-school commencement ...

The Keats-Shelley Journal is published (in print form: ISSN 0453-4387) annually by the Keats-Shelley Association of America. It contains articles on John Keats, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron ...

In 1811, a college student decided to protest war by writing poetry. Britain was fighting Napoleonic France at the time, and the 18-year-old Oxford student mourned the carnage, waste, and poverty he ...

Listen to Michael Collier reading this poem. How much more beautiful it is because it’s Shelley’s guitar— a coffin of trapped song in a body like a grave. Because it’s Shelley’s guitar it’s been put ...

There’s a crucial moment in Breaking Bad when Jesse, unsure of his partner’s motivations, asks Walt a simple question: “Are we in the meth business or the money business?” Walt’s chilling reply: ...

Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley’s famed works have helped his reputation extend to the worlds of politics and history thanks to the influence of his poem “The Masque of Anarchy,” a passionate ...

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The Muse had plainly dawdled. Shelley’s start was rocky, too. He got hung up first on “pedestal”, a tricky word to fit into a metre (“There stands by Nile a lone single pedestal”). Then he was ...

To the editor: All Wednesday morning I watched the April snow filter through the blossoms of the redbud tree and watched the story of the fall of Baghdad. I have also been remembering a poem by ...

The Sept. 15 episode of AMC's Breaking Bad broke hearts with its badness. In this instance, "badness" translates to television amazingness. I recently wrote about how the show's writers use poetry to ...