At one time or another, when face-to-face with a poem, most everyone has been perplexed. The experience of reading a poem itself is as likely to turn us off, intellectually or emotionally, as it is to ...

This essay is part a series by Father Stayer, a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, reflecting on essential works of writing, art and music. In his weekly interview with writers, Scott ...

The third book in a series (begun with Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems, also illustrated by Barbour), this picture book collection is a linguistic pleasure. Works by Emily Dickinson, Eve Merriam and ...

In this week’s poem, Peter Beckford takes us down a well and into an “upside-down” world. I love this poem’s tangible details of leaves, stones, and antlers; its otherworldly sense of shifting ...

On Nov. 6, UMass Downtown hosted four guest speakers — Abigail Chabitnoy, Hannah Brooks-Motl, Joan Tate and Melissa Dickey — ...

Source: The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum / Public Domain Let’s start with an image. You are in a restaurant, at a bar, or driving to a beach with some friends. Someone says something funny, and everyone ...

Tim Kelley and Melinda Gohn are the featured poets for the Maui Live Poets Society reading from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 at Barnes & Noble in Kahului. Kelly is a public high school teacher, and Gohn is ...