Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year.

But that first reading is one which opens the door rather than leaving readers mystified. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. That all said, here’s a poem of mine from my ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend ...

“ Wicked ” is one of several versions of the Wizard of Oz story told from different perspectives — including Dorothy’s in the original “The Wizard of Oz” film and the wizard’s in the film “Oz, the ...

Tom Stockley, also known as T.S. Idiot, is a poet, artist and filmmaker who recently published their debut collection Back to ...

His beautiful little volume, Blossomise (Faber £10, 72pp) is an original and energetic take on an old subject: the all-too ... the poems that will win your heart’ – and does just that.

I feel that as a lack, and one that poetry can assuage. So this was my year of bafflement, gratitude and makeshift, heathen faith. As ever, I can’t claim to have read all the hundreds of books ...

Since I first read Dulce et Decorum Est at school ... poet writing about the war. So why, after all these years, do we see Wilfred Owen’s poetry as a defining image of World War One?

Erdrich, who is Ojibwe and enrolled at Turtle Mountain, receives an ovation after reading “Poem for ... journalism accessible to all. The title of the poem includes what the Dakota and Ojibwe ...