Shel Silverstein was a master of linguistic mischief, using repetition and creative wordplay to amuse and prepare kids for reading.

“And that summer feelin’ is gonna haunt you one day in your life.” Summer — a metaphor for life itself — isn’t all sunshine, ...

Intellectuals, writers and activists visited Lynchburg poet Anne Spencer. Starting Tuesday, Special Collections visitors can ...

Romanticism! What better encapsulates college football fandom (besides hatred, that is)? We all know that this huge mess of a ...

Together, the poetry, timeless and topical, unrolled like a single poem in the Sargent Auditorium Thursday night at the ...

As the season shifts from summer to fall, we see other elements around us shifting. Our peers' clothes shift as more skin is covered to protect from the cool breeze entering campus. Tanned skin from ...

Atlanta-based poet Jericho Brown talks about being named one of 22 recipients of the MacArthur Foundation's 2024 "Genius" grants.

Poems about life for nearly every situation P oetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and ...

“Monster Summer,” the micro-budgeted but big-hearted adventure from child-actor-turned-director David Henrie (he recently played a younger Reagan in the biopic of the same name), does the trick well ...

“I wanted to capture that longing for summer and the way summer makes you ... and she’s a genius at panning the archives for current-day gold. There were well-cut jackets in sherbet hues ...

Additionally, the band have revealed how a poem helped ‘Alone’ come to fruition ... and previously shared his desire for the album to see the light of day in 2022. However, delays hampered their plans ...