Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

April is National Poetry Month and a good time to consider beginning a poetry writing practice for yourself and/or your ...

University of Dayton English professor emeritus Herbert Martin talks about his life and his new poetry collection The Shape of Regret. English professor emeritus Herbert Martin has “good poems to sell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kevin Young interview: Why his Brown poems are beautiful and essential Kevin Young perfectly illustrates poetry’s enduring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poetry is often referred to as an art, and it is one, but it’s also a practical tool. It can jostle your brain into new thoughts, ...

Seamus Heaney died this morning, but his poems continue to be very much alive — and in them, he is first and foremost a poet whose poems you feel in your mouth. Pronouncing the words as he describes a ...

Poetry is a regular feature on Garrison Keillor's NPR radio show A Prairie Home Companion, but for the last five years, it has formed the core of The Writer's Almanac, a daily, five-minute, 7 a.m.

A good poem can reveal a lot about its creator — and together, a collection of good poems can reveal a lot about all of us — as a neighborhood, and as a creative community. We received a lot of good ...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s newest book, “Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry” is an easy read that packs a lot into its roughly 60 pages.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that poetry is one of the least appreciated and accepted forms of literature. You hear people say “I don’t get it,” “don’t understand it,” “it seems so obscure.” A ...