The first female Oxford Professor of Poetry resigned today following allegations she helped to spread sex slurs about her ...

The Common Core has now been around long enough that it’s all that many of the students we teach in college have known, and ...

English poet Musical sounds exist in time and the time is always now. It doesn’t matter whether the music is spontaneously ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s wrestler “Blowwloween,” the 50th for “Rocky Horror,” Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys, punk Shakespeare, famous authors ...

Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a group continues his work on a new medium -- the internet.

Robert Krut grew up devouring books by Raymond Carver and the Beat Poets, heavily influenced by the short story writer’s sparse prose and the latters’ collective bent toward romantic fearlessness. To ...

In their act of painting, the women of Madhubani enact something akin to poetry. They do not write with words but with line, ...

Her own verse has helped bring poetry off the page and into people's lives, but which poets and collections have inspired ...

With 350,000 titles, Barter Books, housed in a Victorian railway station in Alnwick, Northumberland, is a literary pilgrimage ...

Niamh Connolly, a debut novelist from Cork and winner of last year’s Women’s Prize Discoveries Award, has signed a six-figure ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's a Monster Mash and you can meet the “Ghosts of ...

The new book by Ruth Rogers is a bright, lemon-yellow ode to art, friendship and food. Hannah Twiggs meets the River Cafe ...