Another theory posits that Little Miss Muffet was Mary, Queen of Scots. The spider is said to represent Protestant John Knox, a Scottish Reformation leader who protested Mary’s Roman Catholic reign.

Warning: This story contains a mention of attempted suicide. A literary magazine is printing a previously little-known work by the novelist Raymond Chandler — and it's not a hard-boiled detective ...

Hear randomized recitations of poems from the project's early days in New York as well as new ones from France, Mexico, ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

"There was a boy named Emile / who fell in love with a field," poet Kevin Young writes. "It was wide and blue — and if you could have seen it / so would've you." Emile and the Field is the story of a ...

This is a little poem about your life Education, that is, to be precise. Allow me to tell a little lay, Maybe funny and fairly gay, Of a conversation between A student who was quite keen And a ...

“Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America.” There are many assumptions, questions and provocations in the title of an essay in Harper’s Magazine by poet Tony Hoagland, who clearly has a thing for ...

She may be up in space orbiting our blue home, but that didn't stop Samantha Cristoforetti from reciting a lovely poem. Cristoforetti is a European Space Agency astronaut currently aboard the ...