Aside from the day they are named and the day they die, poet laureates are not standard front-page fodder. But this week, British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion led the news in the U.K. with a 30-word ...
Clockwise from top left: Walt Whitman, Robert Lowell, Virginia Woolf, Yusef Komunyakaa, Adrienne Rich, Langston Hughes, Denise Levertov. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos via Wikimedia Commons. O ...