Five years after writing his memoir, Matthew McConaughey is debuting a new book, 'Poetry & Prayers,' "I swore to myself a long time ago, never become a cynic," McConaughey tells PEOPLE ...

Dickinson, arguably the greatest nature poet (and religious poet and love poet) of the American 19th century, didn’t just observe the flora and fauna around her. She treated them — birds and bugs, ...

Poetry can express thoughts and emotions in freeing and insightful ways that prose simply cannot. For those who have never ...

Upon entering the Agnes Gund Garden Lobby of the Museum of Modern Art, an installation appears in view, showcasing a computer scribbling poetry. Words on the screen unfold as a cursor blinks, waiting ...

The novelist, who wrote about World War II in “Atonement” and has turned repeatedly to his own times, imagines the 22nd century in his new book, “What We Can Know.” ...

This week’s poem, by Michelle Menting, brings us into the beauty and grace of a woodland lake. I love this poem’s tender rush of noticing, its imagery of the intricate interconnections of beings, and ...

The first piece of Ginsberg verse to appear in The Atlantic, however—“ Morning in Spring ,” from April 1955—is not by Allen. It’s by Louis Ginsberg, his long-suffering minor-poet father. And it begins ...

Southern California-based Lorraine Devon Wilke is the author of "Chick Singer," published in April by Sibylline Press, which presents work by women over 50.

Reviews of 'The Night of the Iguana' at Boston Court Pasadena, 'Fly Me to the Sun' at the Fountain Theatre and 'Adolescent Salvation' in an intimate Rogue Machine production at the Henry Murray Stage ...

On one of these archipelagoes, a literary scholar named Thomas Metcalf searches through historical archives for a copy of a legendary poem, composed by a 20th-century poet, Francis Blundy, honoring ...