The Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award will be offering a $40,000 prize to the recipient for her collection of poems reflecting Australian culture. The winning collection will be published by ...

Unveiling our “Subtraction Simplified” poster, a clear and concise guide to mastering the art of subtraction. This poster features a simple, memorable mantra that makes learning subtraction a breeze: ...

In this week’s story, “The Ferry,” the narrator has received a voice-mail message from a man who is apologizing for having messed up. It’s the wrong number, though. When did you start thinking about ...

The poet Jorie Graham is one of our great literary mappers of everything, everywhere all at once. As James Longenbach put it, she engages “the whole human contraption . . . rather than the narrow ...

The late Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) was recognized around the world for his way with words. Some of his poetry concerns the divisive politics of his native Northern Ireland; some is about history; some ...

The symbols we use every day have fascinating and surprisingly recent origins, explains author Joseph Mazur in his new book A few years ago friends and I were talking about the origins of written ...

TIME magazine recently revealed its 30 Must-See Tumblr Blogs which includes the highly creative, user-generated Newspaper Blackout. This blog is the brainchild of Austin-based artist and writer Austin ...

Like the Jazz, Blues, and R&B music Brown references, these poems are born of heartbreak, explorations of love and violence, connections and disconnections, the vast complications of body and heart.

On Saturday evenings in number 27 rue de Fleurus on the Left Bank of Paris, Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas played host to a gathering of noteworthy artists and writers. It was here in ...