If you’ve ever talked about “the birds and the bees” or referenced “the best laid plans of mice and men,” then you’ve inadvertently quoted some of the English language’s most famous poets.

It was a worldwide revolution of technique and delight which robustly punctuated the equilibrium of evolution. In the blink of an eye the land bloomed with a spectrum of brilliant color where before ...

Good morning from darkest California – well, darkest America,” says John Lithgow, popping up on Zoom from his study in Los ...

Hundreds of people came to the Celebration of Life event for Autumn Bushman, a 10-year-old girl who died by suicide on March ...

Nest of Matches, the ingenious and savvy new book by Amie Whittemore, out from Autumn House Press, is full of such negotiations. As a mere reader unacquainted with this superb poet, I cannot say what ...

Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

Dorothy O’Brien photo April, somewhere distant, spring fading while summer still is just out of reach. Right out of a ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

For certain, we in the Berkshires are proud of our gardens, and there is a delight in the air when spring weather invites the ...

Seattle Reads is the library’s citywide book group, with more than 20 programs planned in April and May, including events with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on May 16 and 17. Find a copy of “You Are ...

In a blurry photo from my first trip to Poland at 19, me and my godmother, one of my mother’s ten siblings, are laughing together, a thousand feet into the earth, in a 13th century chapel made ...