Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

It’s worth taking note of the term “bbeoeonhi” — which can be translated variously as “(eyes) wide open” and “clearly” — which appears several times in Kim’s poems. The word ...

Poet Sophie Morelli gives life to Mabel Smith Douglass, who drowned in Lake Placid. The true details of her death by suicide ...

Andrew DeYoung, the writer-director of the cringe comedy “Friendship,” talks about working with his real-life buddies Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, and the sinkhole of male bonding. “Your Frie ...

In July, when Brennan and Antrobus met to record the album of his spoken word poems, they recorded enough ... What are the true reasons for this confinement of identity, of language, of experience ...

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime?

She'll be grieved in the public ways well-known writers are, but within the poetry community — on Facebook ... other than the kind of bias that word summons now. They advocate looking at ...

Bob Kaufman’s “Abomunist Manifesto” (1959) is a joke about political proclamations, and it is one of the funniest poems you’ll ... ideal and a dream come true: a laughing-gas vision ...

“I wanted to be true to the power of the poem itself, and that power is in language,” he said. “And I wondered if I could convey that without changing a word of it. It’s all word for wor ...