The United States Library of Congress appoints an official poet, called the Poet Laureate, every one to two years.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

"Auld Lang Syne," by the eighteenth century Scottish poet Robert Burns, is a song about friends and remembering times long ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

At a slam earlier this month, one poet performed a piece about a girl with a very troubled mother.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

The subject of the statue is from the "Aeneid" by Virgil, the most famous poet of ancient Rome.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

The leading English poet of Newton's time, Alexander Pope,honored the scientist with these words: "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.

VOA: special.2011.06.01

Nikki Grimes is a children's writer and poet whose works include "Jazmin's Notebook" and "The Road to Paris."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Here,the poet includes Shackletons vision in part of his famous poem The Waste Land. Who is the third who walks always beside you?

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Eighteen year old slam poet Safia Elhillo deals with another serious issue in her poem, "Immigrant City."

VOA: special.2009.04.17

In eighteen eighty-three, American poet Emma Lazarus wrote a poem as if Lady Liberty were speaking.

VOA: special.2010.09.17

Among them were poet Ezra Pound, and writers Gertrude Stein, John dos Passos, and F.Scott Fitzgerald.

VOA: special.2011.06.19

For example, in April of nineteen ninety-eight, Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky launched the Favorite Poem Project.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Bessie Taylor Gwynn taught him to believe he could be a poet or a writer.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

The extreme importance of nuts and bolts was expressed by the Elizabethan poet, George Herbert.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

He wrote a best-selling book. He was a poet, an artist and an airplane pilot.

VOA: special.2009.01.14