DEAR READERS: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It ...

The prompt for the holiday gathering held by my authors group was to bring a symbol of a favorite Christmas memory with a short story or poem describing its significance.

“Spring still makes spring in the mind / When sixty years are told: / Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, / And we are ...

With that in mind, the Society of the Four Arts invited families to Preschool Story Time: Peter Cottontail Day & Egg Hunt on ...

When Sissay was 12, he was given back to social services by his foster family who had taken him in as a baby. He knew from ...

Easter is a time of joy, coinciding with the arrival of Spring and symbolizing new beginnings. Commemorating the resurrection of […] ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of need. Either way, I’d love to know why it matters to you.

We’ve got you covered with both short poems and excerpts, as well as underappreciated works. Read on for the best Christmas poems of the year—they’ll bring you and your loved ones closer ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...