This compact treasury of poems features nursery rhymes, classics, and selections from 20th-century writers, with contributions from Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and ...

As poets and readers gather in Amherst and across the globe, the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival reaffirms Dickinson’s enduring ...

After eating Arab cuisine and listening to musician Ronnie Malley play the oud on stage, Northwestern’s Middle Eastern and North African Student Association shared Arabic-based poems with each other ...

The carefully crafted words of poetry seem to dance though the auditorium. Or is the graceful steps of the dancers that twirl and move to the poems read aloud? Maybe it can be both in a rare ...

Twice a month, a conference room at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Md., becomes an oasis for relatives of young people being treated there for life-threatening illnesses. In the ...

There appears to be a generally cherished household belief that reading aloud is of itself a virtuous domestic exercise It has, no doubt, its value as a social expedient for “keeping the boys at home, ...

[ALTHOUGH the main theory — the ninth principle — expounded in this article has been tested on thousands of lines, I cannot guarantee that an occasional exception cannot be found. For the reader’s ...