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The poet's breathtaking fourth collection takes in the picnic of sex and love and death that time spreads in its wake.

My children believe in tooth fairies. Do I have to tell them about the murder across the street?

This election has stressed out both parents and kids — but we can use that to model acceptance of uncertainty

The Internet's abuzz about the singer's poem. But what's offensive isn't the verse, it's making a tragedy about her

A great American poet delivers one of his most emotional, honest and generous collections.

The best lunch partners are upbeat and convivial. That leaves out poets, liberals and Republicans.

One is a living universe, the other a 3-D voyage to schlockville. A great essay by Tolkien helps us understand why.

Carl Sandburg reads his ode to the American people in this 1950s recording from his collection of poetry.

Witty one-liners are commonly featured in notable action films but they first originated in Greco-Roman epic poetry

If Pelosi had put down the gavel a few years ago, her legacy as the greatest of all time would go unquestioned

The great children's poet and adult entertainer Shel Silverstein did it all -- singing jazz songs, hanging with Lenny Bruce, writing plays, drawing cartoons, and living at the Playboy Mansion.

A gorgeous, inexplicably sad and funny novel about screwups trying to do better.

Pro-democracy activists in U.S.-allied Gulf monarchies are brutally punished for writing poems or ripping up photos