Like many boys his age, 10-year-old Benjamin Giroux is really into Star Wars, Legos and all things Minecraft."I have a Millennium Falcon about the size of a medium pizza," the fifth-grader said.Watch ...

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...

All poetry is goth, but some poems are more goth than others. And by “goth,” I mean totally unsparing of the twin wildnesses of love and death. The paradox of elegiac poems is that they simultaneously ...

Christopher de Vinck recalls a poem written by his mother shortly after her death: "Her poem did not heal my ache the day she died. Death is not a physician, but the hands of our mothers who love us, ...

Many of the services scheduled for Memorial Day that would have honored our fallen veterans were canceled this year. Many worry those who served will be forgotten and their stories will be lost. One ...

In 2019 when Yale Professor Harold Bloom, probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world, died at the age of 89, I wondered, who will assume his mantle as our leading ...