Katherine Rundell said children can handle hefty themes, but finds it “bad manners to offer a child a story and give them ...

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Dr. John Cooper Clarke has become the UK’s most caustically comic social critic, fanciful storyteller and performance poet.

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Theodore Roethke, one of the greatest American poets of the 20th Century, will be honored at an event at Bloedel Reserve on ...

It’s John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Barbara Fritchie,” an American classic. For many decades, schoolchildren memorized and ...

Marcus Cafagña, a professor emeritus at Missouri State University, recounts the poem that emerged from his son's childhood ...

It’s John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Barbara Fritchie,” an American classic. For many decades, schoolchildren memorized and ...

Ancient Greece is known for many things, but how many of us know that there were a select few women who became exceptional ...