The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash’ by Alexander Clapp “There is a reason why Mafia bosses tend to work in ‘waste management,’” ...

Former Missouri Poet Laureate Maryfrances Wagner writes about the inspiration she takes from a favorite poet, Williams Carlos ...

My guest on Poetry from Daily Life this week is Michael Salinger, who lives in Mentor, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Michael says that his first poem was published in Scholastic magazine in fourth ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle ... It only takes one to make life more complete. A picture: One of my favorite pictures is of Sandy when she was three or four. I didn’t meet her ...

The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming ...

Author, poet, and philosopher David Whyte reflects on the power of words and explores why accepting and celebrating the human ...

In Montenegro and the wider Balkan region, there is a growing curiosity about international cultures, including China's.

Judy Collins' husband Louis Nelson, who designed the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., died in December at ...

Anyone misguided enough to think that poetry is just for the effete and the elite ought to take a look at this collection by ...

While Kristen Stewarts turns ‘The Chronology of Water’ into a movie, its author revisits her past in a new memoir, ‘Reading ...