Writer Matt Hoisch, who has spent nearly a year interviewing poets for a project, describes the public good that comes from ...

Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem.  I don’t remember ...

Falling in love is one of the best feelings in the world and you can’t deny that. With immense thrill and rapture, it is a ...

Clement Clarke Moore is widely believed to be the author of “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” But the Livingston family of New ...

Akhil Katyal talks about ways of grieving, the tricks of translation, and the quest for possible worlds in his new volume of ...

Christopher Nolan's next film 'The Odyssey' is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film ...

Christopher Nolan's new film is 'The Odyssey,' an adaptation of the epic Homer poem for Universal, the studio has revealed.

Those words graphically bring to life a terrifying gas attack on a British trench during the First World War. They’re from one of the most famous poems of the war, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend ...

Under the esteemed patronage of Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, the city of Carthage in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, recently hosted the launch of ...

The works of these Haitian slam poets are rich in symbolism, enough to raise awareness about the country's situation and encourage the authorities to take the necessary measures to put the country on ...