In the best of our Baptist traditions, baptism is both an individual act and a communal act.

The Bedford Reader” is a widely used composition book that has included everything from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech to the classic Shirley Jackson story ...

It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.

College kids aren’t reading novels—but that’s because not enough teachers are asking them to.

Brad Richard, a New Orleans poet and author of a new book titled "Turned Earth," will host an evening of poets reading their ...

HIV-AIDS struck gay and bisexual men hardest, but the real catastrophe was a government and culture whose hatred and ...

The novel takes seriously the question of whether you can read Proust and have a day job, circling the perennial tension ...

NEW YORK (AP) — X.J. Kennedy, an award-winning poet, author, translator and educator who schooled millions of students through “The Bedford Reader” and other textbooks and engaged voluntary readers ...

Lads and lassies of the Flathead Valley turned out for an intimate evening of merriment, poetry, bagpiping, delicious food ...

Over time, I’ve learned a few things about myself as a host. One is that, for right now, eight people around a table — my ...

Virginia’s Lt. Gov-elect Ghazala Hashmi (D) holds a PhD in poetry and selected five poems for fellow Democrats that brought her comfort over the past year.