This week’s guest on Poetry in Daily ... encouragement, humor, and sometimes a gentle nudge toward a different perspective.

As we age, we come to realize that with youth comes a lack of maturity and an insecurity about who we are and how we should ...

is a funny poem that imagines a humorous scene in which a watchman tries to stop a “quaint old figure clothed in white” with a “staff of pine” and “ivy-wreath” from entering a military ...

Corey Van Landingham, a graduate of Purdue's creative writing MFA program has published three poetry collections. Her third, "Reader, I," explores the nuances of romantic relationships in conversation ...

Topekan Ruth Maus's recently released first novel is a coming-of-age story about a young girl growing up in Topeka in the ...

Read aloud every day to the child in your life; it’s a powerful and important gift whose benefits can’t possibly be measured.

What It’s About: The latest from The Verge journalist and novelist Nguyen (“New Waves”) follows four Vietnamese American cousins whose lives are thrown into disarray after the U.S. government ...

Tillotson's wife of 45 years, Nancy, confirmed the news on social media Michael Levin/Corbis via Getty Johnny Tillotson, the singer behind the 1960s hit "Poetry ... He was funny, generous and ...

Conan O'Brien received the Mark Twain prize for humor in ceremony that drew Sarah Silverman, Will Ferrell, David Letterman and Stephen Colbert to the embattled Kennedy Center, setting the stage for ...

Vauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book, “Searches.” But the most moving sections are the ones she wrote ...

Book publishers this year seem to be turning away from the heavy-hitters and opting for something silly. Here are some of the best.