Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Too often, when people think of poetry they think, 'Oh great, another love poem.' Or another nature poem, or another poem rife ...

True about Anne Sexton’s grandmother—but to extend Auden’s cantankerous question, “Who cares about thrushes?” (Thomas Hardy did, and now I do.) “Who cares about daffodils?” (Wordsworth did, and ...

Jim Harrison’s most widely known book was Legends of the Fall, a novella that was made into the eponymous 1994 film starring Brad Pitt. But I only knew him—surprise—by way of his poetry. I was having ...

For Tucson poet and volunteer activist Jefferson Carter, the environment is a cause worth supporting. But he knows that environmental poetry can be boring. How to resolve that aesthetic-political ...

I’m not talking about your stuffy, boring poetry readings. I’m talking about a slam, a poetry slam. Straight-no-chaser style, wicked, lyrical acrobatics—I’m talking Cirque du Soleil. This is what kids ...

For the last few years, I've been complaining to colleagues about how film festivals too often fill their line-up with films that are in no way innovative or interesting. Nowadays they end up showing ...

Too often, when people think of poetry they think, 'Oh great, another love poem.' Or another nature poem, or another poem rife with socio-political commentary. Well, I'm here to tell you there are ...