One morning he went ‘round his yard on a ladder. Rob Carney is the author of nine books of poems, most recently “The Book of ...

The subject line of the email said, "What if..." Editor Amos Bridges explains how a weekly column about poetry found a place ...

Thursday will be a National Day of Mourning. And we should be mourning. Not the death of Jimmy Carter at 100, but that his ...

Not long after I had rung in the New Year with my husband Leonard and two of our dearest friends, my gut started rumbling ...

The Dorset dialect takes some getting used to, but that’s far enough without trigger warnings. The world of Orlam, Polly Jean ...

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In the Book Pages this week, we’re in that odd in-between time when year-end book lists bump up against year-ahead ones.

Hope you enjoy these poems for ... next Christmas Day / That we shall hear the happy children play / Gladly aloud, unmindful of the dead, / And watch the lovers go / To the old woods to find ...

Burns was born to a poor farming couple in Alloway, Ayrshire. His cottage is still there and a bit of a tourist attraction.

In Hamilton’s bygone days, poems like “Rule Britannia ... As Horace Walpole put it in 1783, “No man ever went to the East Indies with good intentions.” Hamilton could not stand the pre-eminence of ...