Mara Forsythe-Crane once said, "Poetry is our struggle to make our relationship with everything work."

Hussein Ibish has beef with venerable upper Northwest book shop Politics & Prose. In Issue No. 22 of magazine The Baffler , Ibish, a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, tells a story about something most of us probably couldn't imagine happening at the freethinking book shop: He got thrown out on his ass.

Indie booksellers keep trying to find new ways to compete with Amazon.

MEDFORD—The township's Cultural Arts Commission announces its Fifth Annual Juried Poetry Contest. The contest, open to Burlington County residents, was established to give recognition to the literary arts and local poets.

WORCESTER - The Worcester County Poetry Association announced this week that Ann Sweetman of Shrewsbury, a high school English teacher in the Worcester Public Schools, has won the 2013 Frank O'Hara Prize for poetry.

Reflections on the 971 poems submitted for our Fourth Annual Found Poetry Contest. Winners will be announced starting May 28.        

In honor of Memorial Day coming up on Monday, this week’s Poetry Pairing matches “Three Hundred Thousand More” by James Sloan Gibbons with the article “Birthplace of Memorial Day? That Depends Where You’re From” by Campbell Robertson.        

Reflections on the 971 poems submitted for our Fourth Annual Found Poetry Contest. Winners will be announced starting May 28.

In honor of Memorial Day coming up on Monday, this week's Poetry Pairing matches "Three Hundred Thousand More" by James Sloan Gibbons with the article "Birthplace of Memorial Day? That Depends Where You’re From" by Campbell Robertson.

President Pranab Mukherjee today asked schools and colleges to encourage more reading of prose and verse published in vernacular languages saying this will make the youth of the country more sensitive to social, religious and cultural diversities.

President Pranab Mukherjee today asked schools and colleges to encourage more reading of prose and verse published in vernacular languages saying this will make the youth of the country more sensitive to social, religious and cultural diversities.

The Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School UIL Prose/Poetry team has truly had a banner year.

Over the past two years, publishers have been steadily filling one of the largest gaps in the e-book catalogue — poetry. Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes and Wallace Stevens have been among ...

By RICHARD ROEPER Given the wretched and sometimes wonderful excesses of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge , not to mention a trailer that gave the impression Luhrmann's interpretation of The Great Gatsby would be one extended anachronistic music video, it turns out Luhrmann's Gatsby is first and foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby .    Fitzgerald's heartbreakingly poetic prose ...

This week’s Poetry Pairing matches “Prayer for a Bamboo-Flowering Famine” by Karen An-Hwei Lee with the book review “Fighting for Scraps” by Pankaj Mishra.        

This week's Poetry Pairing matches "Prayer for a Bamboo-Flowering Famine" by Karen An-Hwei Lee with the book review "Fighting for Scraps" by Pankaj Mishra.

Unconstitutional Translating dense historical prose into barroom jokes: Colin Quinn in his comic monologue at the Barrow Street Theater.

A one-stop resource for all Fifth Third River Bank Run coverage in Grand Rapids.

Signing books at Washington, D.C.'s Politics and Prose, first lady Michelle Obama talked about the inspiration behind "American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America."

The First Lady continues to promote healthy eating and home gardening.