Poem is where the heart is for our Rick Telander Sun-Times sports columnist finishes decades-long passion project by publishing book of poetry for children ...

Jimmy Carter passed away just 13 months after losing his beloved wife, Rosalynn Carter. Read the heartwarming poem the former president wrote for his late wife.

And I always - as soon as I read this new poem, "Nothing New," by Frost, I thought it's essentially a version of "Dust Of Snow," which I think he wrote the following year. That poem stays in my brain.

It’s impossible for me to talk about writing without talking about living, writes Maggie Smith, author of the new book, "Dear Writer." It’s all connected. Collectively, our choices make our ...

At the turn of the 20th century the Midwest was arguably the best existing version of America, taking democracy to new heights.

This little poem never fails to make me smile--it leads off Sandra Cisneros's 1994 volume of poems, Loose Woman, and is a lightly irreverent, highly rhetorical declaration, a rococo piece of work ...

It’s hard to voice your heart, and yet something so good to do. It’s a miracle that a poem written by a Native American woman from Oklahoma moves the heart of a Jewish man in Haines, Alaska.

And I always - as soon as I read this new poem, "Nothing New," by Frost, I thought it's essentially a version of "Dust Of Snow," which I think he wrote the following year. That poem stays in my brain.