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 ...

A section of Address to the Town-Council of Edinburgh by famous poet Allan Ramsay was discovered by the Clackmannanshire ...

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

“Don’t go too far.” Your plea, Meaning this time the child and meaning Still vivid memory— Love lost, once nearer than this ...

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

To the uninitiated, the words abstinence and divestment may connote a sense of deprivation or sacrifice. When applied to a ...

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 ...

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 ...