First up is Interrupting Chicken Saves the Nutcracker, in which Chicken and Papa fly their home coop and attend a performance of the beloved Christmas season ballet. The picture book goes on sale ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Wondering why a small dusty cross anoints the foreheads of Christians once a year? They're celebrating Ash Wednesday, which for many also marks the start of Lent, a 40-day period of penance and ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

But maybe it was not science fiction but poetry, the art of intimations and intuitions, that enabled some writers to describe what had not yet happened. Then again, what we think of as intuition ...

Naomi Shihab Nye has written a charming poem about the experience. It’s called “Boy and Mom at the Nutcracker Ballet.” There’s no talking in this movie. It’s not a movie! Just watch the dancers. They ...

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