Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.

Close reading is more than just reading carefully—it’s a deliberate, methodical way to uncover a poem’s layers of meaning. By focusing on details like diction, imagery, and structure, you can build a ...

B rookline, M ass.—For years before the pandemic, our father, the poet David Ferry, accepted invitations to read in public on any pretext: an academic conference, a bookstore benefit, indoors, ...

Of course, at 93 I am not as good at memorizing as I used to be,” the Oscar-winning actress and author says. “But it is good ...

The longlists for the CBC Literary Prizes are chosen by a team of writers from across Canada. Meet who will be reading the ...

On rainy days, Reading’s sidewalks will shine with the creativity of young writers from the area. Haiku written by local children as part of the Rain Poetry project by nonprofit PA Humanities will ...

I like reading poetry late into the night. I like the way it takes me away from the day, from daylight thinking, and opens me up to something else, something stranger and more unknown. It creates a ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

After that ritual nitrate-laden animal sacrifice, complete with smoke ascending, the poet’s father — to whose memory ...