So many of her poems are about things that kids pay a lot of attention to, like bees and insects and snakes and death,” Pierce Bonifaz said. “So it was really easy for the students to have a ...

Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...

Why are so many poems in today’s magazines about sorrow and misery or freakish, even disturbing language or images? Where are ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 5, during the second day of the University of Georgia Poetry Festival at the Georgia Museum of Art, poets ...

Mrs Adams, because one day you made me a gift of/ daffodil bulbs,” ire’ne lara silva writes for the kind, elderly woman who drove her every day to kindergarten in South Texas. “Praisesong for Mrs ...

Two new collections, “Night Watch” by Kevin Young and “Startlement: New and Selected Poems” by Ada Limón, showcase strikingly different voices in contemporary poetry.

The author best known for The Jew in the Lotus is back with a new book, Seeing into the Life of Things, about what it means ...

A new play, a book of poetry and numerous events seek to remind Jews in Israel and abroad how the death of a prime minister, ...

Prof Erin McCarthy from the University of Galway talks about her ERC-funded project STEMMA and the value of curiosity-driven frontier research.

Two new books by female writers consider what endures after upheaval. Patricia Smith's "The Intentions of Thunder" and Kanza ...

Leonard Adams, a senior at UT studying English, uses his poetry to reflect on his time spent serving the country in the ...

Cecily Parks started writing the poems that would become The Seeds about a decade ago. Now it's finally finished and out in ...