As World Poetry Day approaches on March 21, Sheila Hutton, a resident at Cherry Trees Care Home in Rotherham, shares her ...

Hope for the sake of hope is not hope itself. Some people hope because they cannot bear the alternative. That can end up in ...

Writer and trailblazer Felice Picano has died at 81. He wrote fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, and screenplays and founded one of the U.S.'s first publishers focused LGBT writers.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in ...

The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming ...

The world’s richest men are taking from the world’s poorest communities with deadly consequences. Right now, every $1 becomes $5 to fight for equality. Oxfam takes a closer look at USAID, an agency ...

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

What is Canada like for real for real a perceived lack of cultural identity nobody is quite sure one of the ways we define ourselves is, well, we’re not American Yeah there’s issues groceries ...

Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve your energy and constrain your desire. Fittingly enough, it’s a proper old-school ...

It was chosen for me, but I couldn’t be happier with that decision. Family Matters is a broad overview of how to analyze poetry, prose and plays, all with the theme of family, hence the name. Miller ...

Source: Asier Romero/Shutterstock If any aspect of that anecdote resonates with you, you might be a highly sensitive person (HSP). HSPs have nervous systems that process emotions and stimuli more ...