This Bachelor star was a poet and fans didn't know it. On Monday, Lauren Burnham shared Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s childhood poem on Instagram, and the throwback will make Bachelor Nation laugh. Her ...

For recently published author Peter Hoffman, it all began with ferrets. As a child, he would linger in pet stores, watching the ferrets scramble around. He had even created his own comic strip ...

William Wordsworth, a key figure of the Romantic movement, believed nature profoundly shaped human character and imagination.

This weekend, Darren Aronofsky's somewhat controversial Biblical epic Noah floods theaters, and it'll be sure to stir up discussion with all your religious friends and family members with Easter ...

In yesterday’s Poem of the Day, James Weldon Johnson’s speaker meditates on the fraught sense of identity between father and son, the father recognizing himself in his child, but wishing, at least on ...

While researching a piece on the David Foster Wallace collection at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center, writer Justine Tal Goldberg discovered a gem in the archives: a mournful bit of verse ...

The Wall Street Journal examines the poem, "Only Child," by Billy Collins, from his new book, "The Rain in Portugal" (Random House, Oct. 4). Below the poem, Collins describes his inspiration for the ...

Maurya Simon, a poet and professor at UC Riverside, is writing a book called “My Father’s Daughter: A Memoir in Five Movements.” (Courtesy of Jamie Clifford) Memory is fickle, quixotic and slippery as ...