The Dickinson Poetry Series has returned to holding readings on the second Wednesday of each month rather than the first. The ...

It's wrong to think of self-esteem as a quality that depends only on what we say and do. Self-congratulation is no substitute ...

Nonexpert readers of poems from William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and other famous writers often failed to distinguish between works created by the writers themselves and imitations that ChatGPT ...

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“To him who keeps an orchid’s heart,” observed Dickinson in one of her shortest and most hopeful poems, “the swamps are pink with June.” Darwin, also an orchid-lover, at the end of his ...

Massachusetts will soon have its first-ever poet laureate. Gov. Maura Healey this week signed an executive order creating the ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

Watch the celebrated actress recite Maria Woodford’s ‘elegy for a nissan micra’ which came out on top in this year’s time-themed contest ...

Massachusetts was one of only three states without a poet laureate, according to the Library of Congress, joined by New ...

Jessie Veeder recently spent time in Elko, Nevada, singing at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering’s 40th Anniversary Celebration.

In the tradition of the late, great Mungo MacCallum, LR tries to infuse his puzzles with humour, wordplay and poetry to give readers plenty of “Aha!” moments. They will be accessible, but always with ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on ...