X.J. Kennedy, an award-winning poet, author, translator and educator who schooled millions of students through "The Bedford Reader" and other ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of ...

R.O. Kwon: The multi-award-winning author of the provocative best-selling novels "Exhibit" (2025) and "The Incendiaries" (2018) reads her fiction and appears in an onstage conversation presented by ...

Three writers writing in the regional languages of Sundanese, Javanese, and Balinese received the 2026 Rancage Literary Prize.

Bella Hadid shared a heartbreaking tribute after the death of family dog Dexter, as Gigi and Yolanda Hadid also honored the cherished pet.

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.

Spurning the iconoclastic free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited ...

Already she has turned back to the others: the man with a dark beard and a hunter’s eyes; the woman in her fifties with dank gray hair; the young man with a shaved head who keeps whispering to the ...