“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

Jerry Villere leads the newest book library book club, which meets at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

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"Pollard’s readings [demonstrate] the diversity of her work [...] At its most characteristic, her writing assumes a ...

Think of a seashell. Don’t think of a conch. In fact, forget, for now, about univalve mollusks entirely. Think of Shell, the ...

poetry strives to distill emotion into a short and sweet (sometimes even bittersweet) message. We’ve gathered the best love poems ever written to help you express what you’re feeling ...

More than anything else, children’s books helped Mass identify her passion as well as study her craft. Mass loved “The ...

After losing their son to suicide, Monticello's Anita and Johnny Boone launched a foundation in Jamie's name, hoping to ...

As our population ages, writers are offering books that look at what aging means and ways to live full lives even with the physical limitations that even the healthiest seniors experience. Today we ...

(He told friends that making love to her was ... was 24 and then included in a New Directions collection of his poems and short stories a year later. Most young men don’t fall out of bed ...

You can’t force poetry. The words must be born when they are born. They’re all born together like strings of paper dolls ...