Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way.

Edith Isabelle Thompson (1873-1950) was most widely known for her poetry about rural life and nature. The La Crosse Tribune once called her “the Coulee Region’s poet laureate.” She believed there was ...

Jamaican writer Velma Pollard provided a special kind of sunlight in the Caribbean literary space. Known across the region ...

The eighty-five-year-old folksinger, who is about to publish a book of poems, chats about her old friends (Leonard Cohen and ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

In savoring more, we increase feelings of happiness and strengthen general well-being, writes guest columnist Gianna Somrak.

A Delta Air Lines flight was diverted back to Los Angeles, California, on Saturday night after smoke was detected in the galley.

In last week’s column I mentioned I was going to cover a poetry collection then realized I needed to obtain permission to quote from the poems. So I have now asked the poet, Kim Dower, and she gave ...

Swanson started writing poetry when she was in her early 20s and wrote a book of poems, “Spirit Within,” which she ...

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...

It has the form and texture of a classic crime novel, its antecedents stretching back decades to the golden age of mystery fiction and the heyday of Agatha Christie and her peers.

The museum founder’s life and legacy are celebrated in "ghost story," a new song cycle by Phil Kline that premieres at the ...