The Untold Verse” ran from Friday to Sunday at Ballet Co.Laboratory’s intimate Studio Theatre in a strip mall just west of ...

I now know, for good or bad, most if not all of Dickinson’s poems can be sung to the tune of a traditional American ballad, ...

Associations with Behan aside, Dorset Street is best known in literature as the scene of a stroll by Leopold Bloom in Ulysses ...

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was one of the most powerful voices for social justice in US history. Beginning her career much like her lifelong friend Emily Dickinson, Helen wrote Victorian style ...

Je suis né croyant.” I’ve been snagging on that phrase for decades. It means, “I was born believing.” The mystic modernist ...

Why do we turn to poetry? Ask a hundred people and you'll get a hundred answers. Still, the underlying thread of truth is ...

The poet’s editor dreaded publishing it, he wrote, “lest the malignant read into it more than that virgin recluse ever dreamed of putting there.” Though Emily Dickinson is one of America’s ...

In the tradition of the late, great Mungo MacCallum, LR tries to infuse his puzzles with humour, wordplay and poetry to give readers plenty of “Aha!” moments. They will be accessible, but always with ...

A new book uncovers the lost art of letterlocking, the ingenious folding and sealing techniques used by everyone from Queen ...

Poetry can paint pictures, evoke emotions and inspire change. For performance poet Pelé Cox, it’s also a powerful tool for ...