James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.” ...

If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would look something like this: “Goodnight Moon,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.” For many of us poetry ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it looks like it has a perpetual smile on its face. To track how this ...

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.

By the time A.W. Tillinghast finished the Wissahickon Course at Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1922, one of more than 250 ...

Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.

The small town of Poses on the left bank of the Seine is the new Giverny, says Michèle Ratel, a landscape painter. "Today, ...

Dotted with works of real power and beauty, the artist’s mid-career survey occasionally misfires.

MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, including a poetic evening with Jim Moore, a ...

I grew up in the Los Angeles of the ’80s and ’90s—and, well, you can never go home again. But maybe you can. As the L.A. poet ...