Starting today, we’ll have a week of games, videos and essays to help you along the way. First up: readings by Ina Garten, ...

When Ada Limon became the U.S. poet laureate back in 2022, she took that moment to reflect on poetry's power to connect or to ...

Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already ...

This year's competition asked writers to draft an original, previously unpublished piece focusing on life in Western North ...

Alisson Becker lost his father. He pens this letter to his family — at home and at Liverpool F.C.: “I know that a part of my ...

Of course, there are countless autistic people who write poetry who aren’t famous and haven’t published books. Neurodivergent poet and educator Chris Martin, who works with autistic people around the ...

October 7th was only one single, destructive day. But in Hamas’s genocidal intentions—born from deep-rooted antisemitism, ...

Getting from having a cockroach to Mark Twain’s death-defying miracle started with reflecting on weird idioms, “a group of ...

An admired and longtime poet whose subjects range from school integration to the memories of Holocaust survivors has won a $100,000 prize given for “exceptional talent.” Poets ...

Also included in the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class is Joe Cocker, Bad Company, the White Stripes and Soundgarden.

Arbor Day volunteers planted new trees across the country Friday — much as they’ve done for the past 150 years — but ...

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid ...