As John Keating said in Dead Poets Society, "We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry ...

Jack McCarthy once brought a Worcester crowd to a standing ovation with an epic poem about Latin class. The poem was titled ...

Over a half-million people took their first steps on American soil on Angel Island. A century later, the museum hopes to ...

On a serene Saturday evening along King’s Cross Road, Purist Gallery’s group exhibition Paradox and poem-objects is showing ...

Pet O’Connell rounds up a selection of the latest children’s books, featuring history, rhymes, and the surreal ...

"Death, death to Saddam!" chanted Imam Husham Al-Husainy through a megaphone at a pro-war rally broadcast by C-SPAN in Washington, D.C., in October 2002, countering a nearby anti-war rally as the ...

I woke up this morning at 4 a.m., as I do almost every Tuesday to bring you this weekly newsletter, with the half-awake realization that I’ve now survived 66 years on Planet Earth. But just barely, it ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A ...

By Elizabeth Rush Details are in Caleb Femi’s new poetry collection, “The Wickedest.” By Dwight Garner Mischa Berlinski’s shrewd comic novel finds a veteran actress reconnecting with her ...

One morning he went ‘round his yard on a ladder. Rob Carney is the author of nine books of poems, most recently “The Book of ...

A researcher — who was looking for something else — stumbled onto two poems by Virginia Woolf. The silly, punny, quickly ...

When is something old considered new? If you’re talking about the Grammy Awards, that’s often whoever lands in the best new ...