Crows may be thought of as a bad omen with dark qualities — but this black-feathered ... Edgar Allan Poe played a large role in making the raven a rather spooky bird thanks to his poem of the ...

We now know Sheryl Crow as one of the top rock singer/songwriters of her era, a consistent deliverer of big hits and incredible songs. But like all major artists, she needed that one song to get ...

Nosy Crow, $40 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0247-2 In a wide-ranging volume, Waters presents 366 poems (by writers as varied as Christina Rossetti and Margaret Wise Brown) devoted to nature and the seasons.

Crow’s reticence stemmed in part from the fact that she didn’t write the lyrics, which are taken almost verbatim from a 1987 poem called “Fun”. “It was a strange coming-together of a ...

Crow couldn’t rewrite his 1987 poem "Fun" in a way that matched its energy, she says, so she called the writer to ask to use his words. “I called the guy and was like, 'I know you don't know me.

Jay Parini, a Robert Frost biographer, on “Nothing New,” a poem Frost wrote in 1918, which is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.