We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

The U.S. health secretary was giving a press briefing about CDC findings on the growing number of autism diagnoses, calling ...

Seattle Reads is the library’s citywide book group, with more than 20 programs planned in April and May, including events with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on May 16 and 17. Find a copy of “You Are ...

In the blink of an eye the land bloomed with a spectrum of brilliant color where before it was all greens and earth tones. It was the sudden awakening of a new aesthetic; our “shrew ...

On Monday, in honor of the American Revolution’s 250th anniversary, there was a ceremony led by veterans and a costumed ride ...

But it’s when discussion of the American Dream gets closer to home that her West Virginia students light up. “One thing ...

with support from institutions including the Academy of American Poets and the Library of Congress. Pacheco said she started writing poetry when she was “in middle schoolish.” Were the poems ...

This year’s Lantern service aims to warn about the endangering of American democracy, societal model and ideals, said the Rev ...

And there is no question that the 1861 poem made Revere into a household name, 86 years after the midnight ride and more than four decades after his death. And it happened at a time in American ...

Paul Revere embarked upon his famous midnight ride on April 18, 1775, dashing from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to ...