IT is sweet to be simple, but being simple is indeed difficult. And it is even more difficult to understand the minds of ...

A new play brings into high relief the uncanny parallels between both the Revolutionary and Civil War periods and the ...

In less than 90 days, the United States under Trump has become a very different country.  It is not an exaggeration to say that the United States is facing a meltdown that will be difficult to reverse ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” taught in classrooms across the United States for over a ...

Nest of Matches, the ingenious and savvy new book by Amie Whittemore, out from Autumn House Press, is full of such ...

But Bobby’s songs are powerful as poetry and powerful as music ... Woody Guthrie told me once that songs don’t have to rhyme—that they don’t have to do anything like that.

Kiss became superstars with Alive! So let’s break it down: the 75 best albums of 1975, complete with a playlist of key tracks ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...

Libraries, schools and cultural organizations around Massachusetts and the country celebrate April as National Poetry Month.

Through this special monthly column in partnership with Real Change, we encourage you to bear witness to the creativity and resilience of systems-impacted young people, who are so often relegated to ...