"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

Jonathan Thirkield graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with an MFA in Poetry. He has taught computational design and ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate who died this past Sunday, spent the better part of his literary ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

Rereading the epic in January, I found that the quarrelsome and dysfunctional principals had become an oddly familiar cast of ...

The Tremont Writers Conference explores the importance of community in a writer’s journey and how the mountains and natural ...

From Mr. Mulliner to Bertie and Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse's creations make me laugh out loud. In today's world, that's gold ...

For Negenge, Princess Tiana is “a huge part of [her] personal brand,” and the creator had big plans for her Disney debut.

Claims about the death of authenticity are almost always exaggerated, and accusations of 'cheating' sound absurd in retrospect. Eventually, people learn to sing along to the new tune, or at least ...

Benmont Tench was a founding member of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and has spent decades as a session musician and ...

Off the paved road we turned onto a long, winding dirt road. Past bushes and trees that encroached the road. As we continued, ...