Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

I was scared my parents wouldn’t let me study or write poems. That fear is what led me to adopt the pen name Jyoti Jungle. I ...

Spring break has officially dawned for most high school students throughout the Yakima Valley, barely more than two weeks after the spring season itself officially broke on the calendar.

“Poetry is the art of compression, of saying in a few well-chosen words, enhanced with rhythm and musicality of language what ...

The Chinese director's strikingly confident documentary 'Always' should establish him as a new and exciting voice in ...

Very rarely do people — if you’re not a painter — use paint or brush strokes to communicate basic things. Poetry is unique ...

are the poem. Together they make the poem what it is, so that changing one thing changes everything. The same goes for the choices we make in life. As I confess in "Dear Writer," it’s impossible ...

"Did that experience change the way you decided to be a ... on MS." She has used her public voice for causes all her life. But her poetry, she says, is her private voice – and this time, Maria ...

He is struck on a road just outside Damascus, and his life is readjusted. He then is the recipient of ... gives this same title to his newest book of poems. Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to ...