Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs ...

Hollywood is mourning The Cosby Show actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who died on Sunday, July 20, at age 54. News of Warner’s ...

Poetry from Daily Life: Do your part and provide a poem for a kid who needs one Alan Katz Special to the News-Leader 0:05 ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full of reflection and digression and probing.

But she remembers the day her favorite Rilke poem – the poem she sent me in December -- “came to her.” Her partner of 18 years had just been diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer.

There’s an amazing poem that ends: It pleases me, loving rivers. Loving them all the way back to their source. Loving everything that increases me. It’s the last two words that fascinate me.

It’s impossible for me to talk about writing without talking about living, writes Maggie Smith, author of the new book, "Dear Writer." It’s all connected. Collectively, our choices make our ...

Poems for a difficult life of faith Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ.

Anton Stephan's poem shows how life can eat at the time we have.

Of course we should gush over Joni Mitchell Two new books -- “I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue" -- celebrate the singer-songwriter and Kennedy Center honoree ...

Recent Lansing Poet Laureate Masaki Takahashi shares his poetry and his story. Poet Masaki Takahashi sits down with Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer to share his experiences showcasing the ...

Reading poetry is sometimes presented like homework, but it can be as easy to understand as a trip to Disneyland, Matt Mason writes.