Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

It’s been said that nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless they've had a dog. Billy Collins agrees, and he recently released his 12th volume of poetry, called “Dog Show." Senior arts ...

Read by Tom Waits, written by Charles Bukowski This reading by Tom Waits captures the essence of Bukowski’s The Laughing ...

Nico Patino, a Southern California poet who hails from the East Coast, was once an extreme pogo stick competitor who left ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

Enid Osborn’s new poetry collection, Pedregosa St., is a special volume of poetry which spans 28 years of living in a hundred ...

Create Birmingham has announced a literary initiative led by Birmingham’s inaugural poet laureate Salaam Green. The ...

Just as Martha Hatch Balph’s book of poems, “The Entire Sky,” represents just that — both avian and otherwise — it represents ...

A woman in Lycoming County is rewriting her life story and using it as a way to cope with her diagnosis of Parkinson's ...

Why Shusha stands at the heart of Azerbaijan’s cultural life Shusha, known as Azerbaijan’s cultural cradle, reveals its rich ...

Yet Meherunnesa's life and death remain a testament to the power of poetry as resistance and to an unwavering love for her ...

The opening poem, Candle for a Girl Passing through the Forest, acts is both prayer and a call to arms: “Oh, she does be bold ...