Shel Silverstein was a master of linguistic mischief, using repetition and creative wordplay to amuse and prepare kids for ...

I’ve continued to think about James Earl Jones since his death last month at 93, which focused lots of well-deserved ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz ... And kids who’ve never tried poetry think of great lines. I’ve heard … "The wind is blowing quite a breeze "It’s so cold ...

But Jones is also worth remembering for his celebration of poetry, a kind of reading that ... perfectly elocuted — was the famous gift that Jones shared with the world for decades.

As the season shifts from summer to fall, we see other elements around us shifting. Our peers' clothes shift as more skin is covered to protect from the cool breeze entering campus. Tanned skin from ...

The legacy of an 18th century poet said to have inspired Robert Burns and known for his famous poem about “Auld Reikie” is to be commemorated on the 250th anniversary of his death. Robert Fergusson ...

Ephriam David Tyler, the namesake of Ephriam in the Old Testament, became a deacon at Evergreen Baptist Church and a member of Israel Lodge No. 138. And by the time he died in 1969, he had secured a ...

In the pantheon of Russian literature, the writer who tragically died young is sure to stand somewhere next to Pushkin, whom ...