William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.

A once-promising writer learns some painful lessons in a tragicomic Colombian tale.

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The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to [email protected] with the ...

As I raised my son, I learned that passing down poems, memory, and language can be a quiet but powerful act of resistance.

Melineh and I are lifelong friends, bound early on by a shared and abiding love for literature. Some of my most vivid ...

Le Guin’s relationship with cats is the subject of a new posthumous release, the aptly named “Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of ...

This heartfelt poetry collection invites readers on an emotional journey, showcasing love for reading, pets, and nature, ...

From Ae Fond Kiss to Coming Through the Rye, Burns songs are as powerful as ever for a new generation of performers on the BBC’s Burns Night celebration ...

The spoken word event featured poet Sarah Kay and performances from Stanford’s Spoken Word Collective, which disentangled ...

Poet Curt Curtin was well known in Worcester's poetry circles. His wife and collaborator, Dee O'Connor, talks about two ...

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