Writer Ken Slesarik turned to poetry, both reading it and writing it, after the death of his son. He explains how poetry has ...

Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry columns appear four times a year.

Walter Bargen, Missouri's first poet laureate, offers advice for people willing to embrace the world and be surprised.

In her first book of poems, “Helen of Troy ... By doing so she has provided a witty and acute anatomy of small-town life and of our own American cultural and spiritual barrenness.

Dubai – It has taken more than a decade for a 59-year-old Sudanese woman with achalasia, a rare oesophageal disorder, to ...

The subject line of the email said, "What if..." Editor Amos Bridges explains how a weekly column about poetry found a place in the Sunday newspaper.

A collection of Irish sayings often read more like poetry than anything else. Here are ten unique Irish phrases that resonate ...

Thursday will be a National Day of Mourning. And we should be mourning. Not the death of Jimmy Carter at 100, but that his ...

And throughout his long life, he readily admitted that he was human, imperfect, a sinner. When he first was running for ... as he did on many subjects, wrote a poem about this.

Former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations and now author, Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri, spoke about her debut novel ...

Books & the Arts / In his Collected Poems, his verse becomes an index for a life lived between ambition, pain, and ...

In your story “ Ming ,” a poet named Thadeus inherits a Chinese artifact worth millions of dollars from a man he knew very ...