When it comes to reading, everyone has a favorite book genre they turn to again and again. Find out which is the most read in ...

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

On March 22, 1929, the California legislature in a joint resolution names a man who spent his boyhood hunting ducks and geese in Sutter County as California’s second poet laureate.

An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in Wiltshire ...

The Ufot Family Cycle continues with a co-production from Central Square Theater and the Front Porch Arts Collective.

The regal tradition of scratching signatures in windowpanes is long established and well known. The windows – particularly ...

I’ve come to realize that when we lose the ability to communicate fully in words, the other ways we connect—through actions, ...

In the Ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey,” Odysseus’ men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens’ ...

Charles Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion.

While doing some house cleaning, I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the pages I had dog-eared was ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, we spoke with seven creators of picture book biographies highlighting overlooked female figures in history.