THE TRANSLATOR A Novel By John Crowley William Morrow 298 pages, $24.95 John Crowley is the award-winning and much-admired author of seven previous novels, vast in conception and hard to classify.

Air Force Colonel Ron Smith keeps his cold-weather gear in the bedroom closet of his sparely furnished apartment in the Central West End. "I call it my Antarctica closet," he says, dragging out a ...

Today’s poem, Shelley’s “The Cold Earth Slept Below” first appeared in print in 1815. There is something premonitory about this poem, with its shifts from tetrameter to dimeter, its abccaab rhymes, ...

Fallen cold and dead. This poem will be instantly recognizable to fans of the 1989 film Dead Poets Society—in fact, “O Captain! my Captain!” is one of the most memorable quotes from the movie.

From delightful Christmas poems for kids that inspire little ones to become Santa’s little helpers to famous poems that bring warmth and joy to cold winter days, ...

My attention has been called to the fact that my verses, “The Dog’s Cold Nose,” printed in THE TIMES of Dec. 2, 1904, were anticipated by “Why the Dog’s Nose Is Always Cold,” by ...

Sinclair's first book, Cannibal, was a collection of poems. In the new memoir, How to Say Babylon, she reflects on her early years and her break with Rastafari. Interview highlights ...

April always brings some of the years' biggest poetry collections. So as it wraps up, we wanted to bring you two favorites — retrospective collections from Marie Howe and Jean Valentine.

While cold, hard numbers and poetry might seem antithetical at first blush, from Muschenetz’s perspective, the two couldn’t be a better fit.

Presented by hip-hop star Akala, Poetry: Between the Lines features contemporary poets including Jackie Kay, Gillian Clarke and Ciaran Carson, in conversation with Akala about some of their best ...