Sexton began the creative writing program at the University of Alaska (UAA) in 1970. He published more than a dozen books of ...

Think of all the best parties you’ve ever been to, jumbled together and winding into one long night. Imagine running through that dreamed-up congregation hour by hour. What did it smell like? What did ...

Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs its depths.

My book, Becoming Baba, isn’t a polemic. It’s about raising Muslim kids. But for some people, that’s too much to handle.

Linda Ankrah-Dove, 83, published three poetry books in April, exploring life and her views on human perspectives. She started ...

Chip Williford, the director and co-host of the Riverhead-based Poetry Street, has been named Suffolk County Poet Laureate — the first African American ever named to the post in Suffolk.

Words need to "audition" for the chance to be in a sentence, poet Kate Coombs writes. In a poem, they need to be perfect for ...

In the raw poetry of "Tell Me Something Good," he explores childhood trauma that challenged him, special education students who lift him up.

Andrea had a unique ability to offer their readers and listeners a way of living, to show us how much we need tenderness, and ...

Well, a new study has finally given the answer to the long-believed poem, using data from over 2,000 children. Conducted by ...

In reading Women in a Golden State, I see my mother in so many of the poems. Sharon Langley’s poem, “I Saw My Mom Today,” ...

The star became obsessed with mountain climbing to prepare for the remake of the 1993 Sylvester Stallone movie: "I did five ...