He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

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Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

Where do poems come from? After my school assembly ... pets, animals, family, friends, and from the real and imagined visions I see along my daily walks.” I’m not sure that was enough, but ...

The 29-year-old singer and songwriter is set to release 'Forever Is a Feeling,' her first solo LP since breaking out as a ...

I was at a poetry reading the other day. I go to very few poetry readings. Because I write, I have writer friends, and some of them write poetry. So I occasionally go to a poetry reading to support my ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...

The Mad Men star’s somewhat limited range finds another suitably smooth outlet in this Apple TV+ drama. But is his ...