While waiting for domestic travel to resume across our wide brown land, Brian Johnston looks to Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country" for inspiration.

Katharine Lee Bates and the Story of America the Beautiful," chronicles Bates's life as an author, poet and professor; her ...

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

Explore the powerful poetry of former New America Fellows Sarah Kay and Clint Smith, reflecting on culture and the transformative power of words.

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering West Marin, including the towns of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Bolinas, Stinson ...

With China's population of seniors over 60 surpassing 300 million, ensuring a happy and fulfilling life for all elderly ...

Odysseas Elytis, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, is regarded as one of Greece’s major poets and an eminent exponent of romantic modernism.

Sometimes reading poetry can feel exhilarating, like you are finally seeing and being seen. Other times it’s a slog that ...

Charles Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion.

Even though Brianna said many horrible things about the “Something In The Orange” singer, this did not stop women from flocking to the famed artist. After their breakup, there was speculation that ZB ...

Poetry Out Loud allows high school students from across the country to participate in a dynamic ... them about literary history and contemporary life. The program starts at the local level ...