These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

His œuvre includes breezy chronicles of his friends’ social lives, odes to the cigarettes he smoked (at one point, Brainard ...

I’ve come to realize that when we lose the ability to communicate fully in words, the other ways we connect—through actions, ...

“Kanye West is not Picasso / I am Picasso / Kanye West is not Edison / I am Edison / I am Tesla / Jay-Z is not the Dylan of anything / I am the Dylan of anything / I am the Kanye West of Kanye West,” ...

Children don’t even read anymore. Omowunmi is trying to take over to see what can be done about it. People don’t seem to know ...

If Ulster-Scots poet Anne McMaster doesn’t write for a while, she freely admits to becoming a “wile carnaptious person” to be ...

Poet-lyricist Vairamuthu has claimed that his novel Kallikaattu Ithikasam (The Epic of Kallikkadu) deserves a Nobel Prize. Speaking at ‘Vairamuthiyam’, an inter ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds." ...

Three scholars at Western University are sharing the untold stories of composer Ann Southam, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell and poet Hildegard Jone.

Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu tables the Tamil Nadu Budget for 2025-26 in the legislative assembly today amid the ...

NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, ...