The NEA grant gave voice, honor and power to an audience of poets who nurtured the gift and returned it to society. May it be ...

Little Orphan Annie may be famous in comic strips and movies, but she was first near and dear to the hearts of a Hancock County family who called her Mom and Grandma.

Typically wearing leisurewear, the Canadian radio show host looks into a camera in the soundproof studio she created in her basement. With a microphone propped in front of her, she records poems — ...

The New Yorker's famously rigorous fact-checking began with an angry letter from a protective Maine mother. The magazine was just two years old in 1927 when it published a profile of the Rockland-born ...

The Pulitzer Center congratulates the 2025 Fighting Words Poetry Contest winners and finalists!This year's Fighting Words ...

All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — For many Iranians it was a lightning sequence of events: A 12-day war with Israel and a sudden, ...

The Trump administration's acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director was criticized Tuesday after creating his own revised version of the famous poem on the Statue of Liberty. At ...

Part Three of John's funeral just wrapped on Days of Our Lives, and it ended with two of the people whose lives, perhaps, ...

Twin for the win, welcome to Gemini season. People born under these stars are marked by a ceaseless curiosity. Seeking to learn through language, they are oxygenated by the new and novel and intere… ...

John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous.. The former Beatle penned a racist verse during the band’s Hamburg residency in 1961. In the short poem, he uses the term ...