Arthur Sze, the national poet laureate appointed by the Library of Congress last month, visited Queens College, in Flushing, ...

COMMENTARY: Great literature shows us who we are. It is like a mirror that shows us ourselves. It shows us our character, our ...

Gregory Orr, above, and Sam King will discuss “Can poetry save your life?” in the Guild Hall on Sunday, April 8. It’s National Poetry Month. Who cares? What good is poetry, anyway? Poet Gregory Orr ...

Every wall of the Los Angeles-based Get Lit office holds the power of art and words. "We just want our young people and our teachers to have the best. We want them to feel nourished here," said Diane ...

President Barack Obama embraces poet Louise Glück before awarding her the 2015 National Humanities Medal on Sept. 22, 2016. The 2020 Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to Glück “for her ...

Leading poets, writers and health professionals have urged Pakistan to recognise poetry and literature as essential tools for public wellbeing, citing new global findings that creative reading can ...

For centuries, Native poetry has been preserved by the spoken word. So when a team of editors were putting together a new anthology of Native poetry, with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo among them, they ...

Leonard Unger, an English professor, internationally renowned scholar of British and American verse, literary critic and poet, died of an undisclosed illness Thursday at the Veterans Affairs hospital ...

Parents are pictured in a file photo reading to their daughter. Every Christian, but especially seminarians, should set aside their screens regularly and spend time with a book of literature or poetry ...