In a recent Poetry Foundation “Writer’s Almanac,” contemporary Irish poet Brendan Kennelly called his genre “above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out ...

With October come and nearly gone, the autumnal beauty overtaking Cape Cod is hard to deny. The leaves are shades of yellow, orange and red. The air is beginning to get a slight bitter chill and ...

Housework is a chore for many, and a pleasure for some. Poet Faith Shearin's mother sees it as the former. "My mother despises what can never truly be done," Shearin writes in the book Sweeping Beauty ...

in places she’d rather not name, how her skin there felt more like leather. she already knew what she knew. Andrea Hollander Budy is the author of three poetry collections: “Woman in the Painting,” ...

One of the few things almost everyone can agree on about contemporary American poetry is that no one can agree on much. At present, poetry is a jumbled landscape, with no single, dominant style and ...

This new concert, or you might say themed performance, opened at the Melbourne Art Centre on Wednesday evening. It gave the big audience lots of pleasure, with occasional puzzlement. Paul Kelly is ...

Mathematicians are not renowned for their ability to reach the deepest recesses of the human soul. This talent is usually associated with great artists and musicians, and a good poet can move us ...

In some remote corners of East China's Luxi Plain and Southwest China's Hengduan Mountains, there are schools where teachers ...