Some people seem surprised by the idea that poets do any thinking at all. There is a popular image of the poet, for which much of the blame must go to the Romantic poets, as a wild, inspired, ...

Where are the boundaries between adjacent literary forms? When does prose become poetry, poetry become song, song become theater? These bounds are collapsing as contemporary artists experiment. Though ...

Ada Limón’s new book of poems offers a new way to engage with a troubled world. Catch her onstage with beloved author Robin ...

Joan Bransfield Graham, illus. by Krysten Brooker. Amazon/Two Lions, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4778-4715-2 When a boy is "seized by a rhythmical beat," he extemporaneously crafts poems in response to ...

Burning Bright"Yale Center for British Art1080 Chapel St.Through Nov. 30. Visit the museum's website for hours and more ...

This week's column is written by David L. Harrison, the host of Poetry from Daily Life. David, who lives in Springfield, made up his first poem more than eighty years ago and is currently Poet ...

ABOUT two decades ago, this writer came across an elderly English couple at a hotel in Swat. We seemed to have already struck up a friendship and sat down to have a conversation over dinner the next ...

For more than 150 years, children have been captivated by the tale of The Owl And The Pussy-Cat and their adventures in a 'beautiful pea-green boat'. But now trans rights campaigners have renamed ...