"There was a boy named Emile / who fell in love with a field," poet Kevin Young writes. "It was wide and blue — and if you could have seen it / so would've you." Emile and the Field is the story of a ...

Another theory posits that Little Miss Muffet was Mary, Queen of Scots. The spider is said to represent Protestant John Knox, ...

Warning: This story contains a mention of attempted suicide. A literary magazine is printing a previously little-known work by the novelist Raymond Chandler — and it's not a hard-boiled detective ...

Door bells,” Barbara Guest said, divorcing the compound with a pause. The poem was simple, startling, one minute long. In the ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

Less than two weeks after 20 Days in Mariupol won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, another important film about Ukraine has bowed on the world stage. A Poem for Little People, directed by Ivan ...

This is a little poem about your life Education, that is, to be precise. Allow me to tell a little lay, Maybe funny and fairly gay, Of a conversation between A student who was quite keen And a ...

Matthew McConaughey's back on screen driving though hell in "The Lost Bus," while on the page he presents his "Poems & Prayers." ...

MacDougall hoped to discover whether a soul had mass with his macabre experiment, and if so, how much. His tests with ...