Marking the date of Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains,” we can reflect on its enduring warnings about nuclear war, ...

At Newport State Park, wilderness and artistry combine on the Poetry Trail. An easy one-mile hiking loop, the trail offers ...

The characters in this year's winning stories engaged in voyages of exploration, whether it’s a search for a ghost town, a ...

Words arrive only after the landscape has spoken. Before words, there is always the landscape. When I remember a foreign country, I do not recall its place upon a map. Nor do I remember the name of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But those numbers may only be telling part of the story. I have spent the past six ...

We asked ten literary experts to recommend the climate poem that has spoken to them most powerfully. Their answers span over 200 years and a range of emotions from sorrow, to anger, fear and hope.

Just about every day now has a special observance associated with it. Among other things, April 30th is National Honesty Day, apparently a counterbalance to April Fools' Day. It's also Poem in Your ...

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For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages. Jeffrey Angles’s translation of “Memory of a Three-Year-Old” appears in our ...

Moms are so important; they show us what love is, and they help us grow into strong women with families of our own. So what should you write in a Mother's Day card? We've compiled many of our ...

Chloe Aridjis, The Shadow of the Object, 2026, book cover. Courtesy: Penguin Random House/Chatto & Windus This extraordinary novel – Aridjis’s fourth – opens in contemporary Mexico, where the ...

I filmed this rare moment when fresh snow fell gently over pink spring blossoms and was inspired to write a short Chinese poem for the scene. In this video, you can read my verses on the screen while ...