Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...

The weather has recently evoked the image of an oversized leather chair, a crackling fireplace, a rich mug of hot chocolate ...

The Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain” is an ambitious anthology edited by Doralee Brooks and featuring 140 poems, all either about ...

February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...

ROBERT FROST: Whose woods these are, I think I know. His house is in the village, though. He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow.

Haley Mlotek’s new book provides neither catharsis nor remedies for heartache, but rather a tender exploration of human ...

They rushed to flee the fires in Southern California, grabbing their belongings and their pets. They took the precious and ...

Writing in 1992 – in an essay that essentially relaunched Pritchard’s reputation – Young wondered why his work was never mentioned, ‘especially odd given that The Matrix was published during the ...

According to a Gallup survey from 2022, Americans are reading fewer books per year than ever before. And the time that people spend reading has dropped over the years, too.

A sampling of some worthwhile 2024 picture books that didn’t make it into the column last year but, nevertheless, deserve ...

The proliferation of "y'all" points to a global cultural shift toward more inclusive language and merging traditions.