Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who teaches a class exploring Swift’s music's connection to ...

Maggie Smith’s poem “Good Bones” became a viral sensation when it was published in 2016 the same week as the Pulse Nightclub mass shooting in Orlando. The exposure — rare for a living poet, let alone ...

Source: The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum / Public Domain Let’s start with an image. You are in a restaurant, at a bar, or driving to a beach with some friends. Someone says something funny, and everyone ...

Before reading her poem “Der Garten” (The Garden), German author Safiye Can holds up the page from her book of poetry for her audience to see. In the poem’s title, the letters G and A dip lower than ...

The morning of the first day of kindergarten Lining up by last name (of course I’m last) I feel sick (I cut my own hair the night before) My mom kneels down and comforts me Telling me I am confident, ...

crossing the window and gone. busy to pay attention. Marge Piercy has published 19 books of poetry, the latest being “Made in Detroit” from Knopf. She has published 17 novels, a memoir and four ...