Maya Angelou is the second poet in history to read a poem during a presidential inauguration; Robert Frost was the first ...

On March 21, as the world marked World Poetry Day, many questions came to mind, among them, the one chosen as the title of this discourse. Like other cultures around the globe, our culture as ...

Are aspects of language and cognition associated with decreased mortality? Recent research suggests that the answer is yes.

Garth Greenwell’s “Small Rain,” in which a poet falls ill and confronts mortality, the meaning of art and the failures of health care, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction on Monday.

Poems don’t give you news, they give you inspiration. Poems don’t give you knowledge, they heighten your sensitivity. Poems don’t give you information, they increase your empathy.

Asane, published by Dhauli Books, is a collection of 15 stories that resists the allure of conventional storytelling, ...

Skye Jackson’s debut poetry collection, “Libre,” leads off with a poem that, back in 2021, won her deserved acclaim.

Poetry written especially for children is perfect for those developing brains: because poems for children tend to be short, ...

An anthology of Poetry, story and art by Women from Romani, Traveller and Nomadic Communities; The Conversation; and ...

As an esteemed poet and a retired professor of philosophy at UW-Milwaukee, John Koethe kept those two worlds separate. “I ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

Nearly a century has passed since writer Virginia Woolf alerted us to the breakdown of language when confronted with pain. Woolf noted that words provide an endless resource for those who dream or ...