Emily Dickinson explained what the feeling of writing poetry is like, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were ...

Libraries, schools and cultural organizations around Massachusetts and the country celebrate April as National Poetry Month.

Pop star Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King are among six women who traveled aboard Blue Origin’s all-female, suborbital space tourism mission. • The company’s New Shepard rocket lifted ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

New Shepard doesn't just take celebrities on joy rides to the edge of space. Blue Origin regularly launches it with scientific payloads and other cargo on board from paying customers, including NASA.

“Blue Train,” I said, and the guard waved us through. Image Guests arriving for a trip on the Blue Train are welcomed in style at the Cape Town train station. The entire experience is meant to ...

World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...