Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

In a newly translated collection, There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, Ditlevsen's social realism portrays all ...

The world we live in is a wasteland of words, but reading poetry reminds us that language can be used with precision and ...

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...

Olivia Gatwood, author of "Whoever You Are, Honey," "Life of the Party" and "New American Best Friend" discusses the themes ...

Myra Sklarew, a poet and teacher who found inspiration for her graceful, meditative verses in the natural world, her Jewish heritage and her early years working with rhesus monkeys at a research lab, ...

There Lives in Me A Young Girl Who Will Not Die, by Tove Ditlevsen, is a searing account of how childhood wounds can shape ...

Books about a family’s exploration of the natural world, the challenges of parenthood during a time of climate crisis and how animals perceive the planet have won $10,000 prizes for their exemplary bl ...

Adrian Frazier’s biography is overly earnest and not always well written but it’s a reservoir of information about the John Montague’s long and eventful life ...

In an interview with Aasim Akhtar, conducted in Lahore, he discusses his engagement with the history of the Sikhs, the Sikh ...

Some fear we’ll be buried in brimstone; others expect to be extinguished by A.I. But is there comfort to be found in our ...