A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it ...

Five years of Monet’s life in South Florida culminated in her latest poetry collection, Florida Water, which touches on ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case ...

Abigail “Abby” Drumm made poetic history this year at Agawam High School. In February, she was the first student to win the ...

The free Native American Arts Festival Week runs June 16-20 and will feature speakers, a film screening, music and more.

In her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” Yiyun Li tries to honor the lives, and accept the unfathomable deaths, of her ...

A rhopalic poem or sentence is one in which each successive word is one letter (or, typically in poetry, one syllable) longer than the previous one. Due to the fact that the personal pronoun ...

Veterans, politicians and community members gathered at the Vacaville-Elmira cemetery Monday to honor the community's fallen soldiers for Memorial Day. More than 100 people attended the event, at ...

They now have an illustrated book of poetry called Words with Wings and Magic Things. "One of the ways I describe this book is Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids," says Burgess, who remembers ...

John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous. The former Beatle penned a racist verse during the band’s Hamburg residency in 1961. In the short poem, he uses the term ...

John Lennon wrote a poem using the racial slur several times to tell the story of an unemployed boy named Tom - Paul Popper/Popperfoto ...