Winter is her season of creativity. She travels on trains, not planes, and likes to jot “gnomic lines” in various notebooks. For her, trains are a place of imagination, but also a reminder that the ...

Words for a better world Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates ...

Charles Baudelaires quote of the day, “Always be a poet, even in prose,” shows why his 1857 Les Fleurs du mal still influences writers in 2026. The collection reshaped modern poetry and literature. It ...

Velavan, the boon giver ...

Nicaragua is sometimes called the “tropical North Korea”. Even by the standards of Latin American autocracies, it feels tense in Managua, the capital. Any political talk is hushed for fear that ...

Alex Caldiero, a Utahn who called himself a "sonosopher" for his mixing of words, sound and philosophy, died Monday at age 76. For years, Caldiero was the writer-in-residence at Utah Valley University ...

"The classroom is heavy with rumor and ominous unease." ...

Romance is dead. Media depictions of yearning killed it. Generations of young people were sold on an idealized version of ...

So, a novel? A memoir? A chapbook? This is a book of poetry, with a plain tomato soup of a story within it. A can of Campbell ...

The Bedford Reader” is a widely used composition book that has included everything from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech to the classic Shirley Jackson story ...

NEW YORK (AP) — X.J. Kennedy, an award-winning poet, author, translator and educator who schooled millions of students through “The Bedford Reader” and other textbooks and engaged voluntary readers ...