The author of this unique collection of new verses, opening one side in Hindi and the other in Urdu, is Salman Akhtar—an ...

So begins Chapati by Nithya Mariam John in her latest book, Kitchen Poems. It’s not just about the beloved, humble chapati.

Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...

Frost’s approachable verse and appealing rural subjects brought him legions of admirers. His personal life was shot through ...

It’s amazing what one will revisit when reading a classic child’s book. While scrolling through a website, I came to a mention of a poem by Shel Silverstein entitled “The Giving Tree.” I read it many ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

A Fort Myers writer and former restaurant critic got an unexpected Valentine’s Day gift last week: She'd just won the prestigious Southern Book Prize.

ROBERT FROST: Whose woods these are, I think I know. His house is in the village, though. He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow.

I was delighted recently to discover that three of my favorite authors, all from extremely different backgrounds and perspectives, have written three extremely different books on aging. Yet even with ...

February, and the events of this year so far have not inspired much optimism. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are being slashed, hundreds of people have lost their homes to fires and members ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Her latest collection of poetry, Girl, organised in three parts, is no exception. If the whole book could be a single ... wild / honey dripping from a tree” and herself as a child “slithering ...