Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

A recent study provides insights into the life history and behaviour of the endemic Cape Autumn Widow butterfly (Dira clytus), a species endemic to South Africa.

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Constance (Connie) Levy, who lives in St. Louis in a neighborhood of trees, birds, squirrels and other creatures she welcomes into her poems.

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Blue corn is an important food to the Navajo people. It’s the title of a new book of poems by Amber McCrary, "Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert." ...

readying a sack full of sunflower seeds. One woman powers on the electric machine, and it bursts into life. Its grain-grinding jaws rotate purposefully, and the woman eagerly processes the seeds ...

Take these lines from the middle of “In the Middle of My Life,” a poem in Jennifer Chang’s recent collection “An Authentic Life”: She quotes a little more from James Longenbach’s book ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will ... provided a witty and acute anatomy of small-town life and of our own American cultural and spiritual ...

Bookends with Mattea Roach36:05Emma Knight: 'Bad' mothers make good stories — and are more true-to-life Add some “good” to your morning and evening. Sign up for our newsletter. We’ll send ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...