Here are the 10 best books to read this month, including poignant fiction, a Hollywood satire, and a work by Nobel winner ...

Reading, while not technically medicine, is a fundamentally wholesome activity. It can prevent cognitive decline, improve sleep, and lower blood pressure. In one study, book readers outlived their ...

I needed to stop thinking that I knew more than the author and give in to whatever ride they had spent years planning.

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

All hail National Poetry Month, in which we are allowed — encouraged, even — to revel in words laid one by one without the usual constraints of punctuation or the so-called rational sequencing of ...

The invention of close reading. By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art ...

I BEGAN writing poetry because one Sunday afternoon in March 1922, a friend suggested that I should: the thought had never occurred to me. I scarcely knew any poems — The English Hymnal, the Psalms, ...

The AAUW-Carbondale Branch invites the public to attend a special holiday reading of “Poshard Reads Poetry for Pantries” at 6 ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

Coming up: Local Author Visit “Holiday Hauntings” on the Dallas Patch calendar ...

Part five of the Hoboken Historical Museum’s poetry festival “Something New (Jersey)” happens Sunday, April 10, with host/poet-in-residence Danny Shot hosting a reading featuring poets Frank Messina, ...