The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

How did the author of "The Savannah Cook Book" fenagle famous poet Ogden Nash to write the introduction? Polly Powers Stramm finds out.

Charles Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion.

The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

OpenAI says it's trained an AI 'creative writer.' It kind of evokes that annoying kid from high school fiction club.

I remembered this terrifying conversation with my Mama when I heard about the violent death by sweep that killed lifelong ...

T he main attraction in the Wembley neighborhood of northwest London is the eponymous football stadium where the England ...

The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy is a distinctive theatrical experience that stages four of Poe's dark tales, "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," "The Raven," and "The Masque of Red Death" as cast ...

A reader says Beethoven would be bewildered that the European Commission plans to borrow €150bn to buy weapons of destruction ...

The curators of the National Gallery of Art’s exhibition “ Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist ” withhold her most famous work, the 1968 carving of a clenched fist known as “ Black Unity , ...

It makes me sad that so many in North Carolina are blind to what is truly going on: The rich getting richer and the poor ...

Warren Buffetts decision to cut his Apple holdings and amass a record cash reserve of $334 billion has sparked intense ...