When Cleveland poet Philip Metres was a senior in AP English at Wilmette, Illinois’ Loyola Academy in 1987, he was assigned a ...

A new study reveals that modern ideas about the Black Death’s rapid spread across Asia stem from a centuries-old ...

Before her Nov. 17 appearance at St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater for the Talking Volumes literary series, Baer talked with the ...

For Samyak Shertok, Mississippi State University’s newest poet and professor in the English department, poetry is a tapestry ...

The pen trembles slightly in his hand, hovering over the page. Outside, the sunlight fades behind the trees around his small ...

On its surface, Come See Me in the Good Light is a film about death. But it’s really a film about the vibrant beauty of life.

"Parts of our traditions kind of fall along the way if they’re not kept up," says Veronica Sanchez-Saenz, a teacher at Irving ...

"It's just having the courage to be vulnerable. It's also a revelatory process of writing. It’s self-revealing to a degree." ...

NPR's Scott Detrow sat down with poet Kate Baer at Midtown Scholar, a bookstore in Harrisburg, Penn., to talk about her new book of poetry, How About Now.