The Pope, famous—perhaps foremost—for his insistence on simplicity and aversion to clerical glitz, wanted to be buried not at ...

With the death of Jorge Bergoglio, or Pope Francis, we lose a rare leader who, in an Italy governed by neofascists and in an ...

Longtime educator and author Laura Robb explains how daily practice with poems helped her granddaughter become a better ...

Some people may think that Irish poetry is primarily about politics and patriotism, but the lyric voice is ever-present.

Celebrity authors and special guests Jenny Slate, Amanda Gorman, JoJo, Wil Wheaton and more came by to get their portraits ...

The funeral of Pope Francis captures a fundamental visual and ideological tension within Catholicism.

The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since.

Scott Maruna and Christina Brant won top awards for prose and poetry at the Friends of the Jacksonville Public Library's ...

Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus, a work written around 200 CE about well-read people philosophizing and enjoying good food and drink.

During the COVID-19 quarantine, Portland-based poet Anis Mojgani virtually navigated his new position as Oregon’s poet ...

Community Library Sedona hosted the second of four scored poetry readings in the competition to become the first Sedona Poet ...

Out of 157,000 students who participated in Poetry Out Loud this school year, Wichita East High senior Ismail Saeed is one of ...