We know the Scottish writer George MacDonald (1824–1905) as the author of realistic novels, as well as fairy tales and other works of fantasy: “Sir Gibbie,” “At the Back of the North Wind,” “The Light ...

Robert Southey (1774–1843) was a minor Romantic poet, a minor author of scribbled translations for money, a minor figure among the great collection of Lake District poets in his time. But he ended up ...

Let’s return to this poem from the past and wrap up what this poet feels God wants to convey to me and those who will actually read it for content. Doing this nearly 38 years after it was handwritten ...

“I take the material from memory and things that have been lost and people who are gone and the past, but I’m trying to give it life again,” said Kasischke. Kasischke bases many of her poems on real ...

Click the arrow on the audio player to hear Billy Collins read this poem. You can also download the recording or subscribe to Slate's Poetry Podcast on iTunes. I turn ...

Suzannah Omonuk, a first-year student at Harvard University’s Divinity School, wrote a poem in honor of Venus, one of four enslaved people owned by Harvard’s presidents in the early 18th century, ...

In the days of the ancient Greeks, poetry and sport went hand in hand at athletic festivals like the Olympics. Poets sang the praises of athletic champions and, at some festivals, even competed in ...

Twelve terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... That's just the way he likes it.

Basalt resident Lois Naft reports that a bear cub has taken up residence in her yard, perhaps abandoned by its mother. That reminded me of a poem I sent to your paper when the popular Grana bakery ...

A close-up of a "smiling" Yangtze finless porpoise at the Baiji Dolphinarium of the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Endemic to China’s Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless ...

Not long ago a distinguished critic, reviewing Father Tabb's poetry, remarked, 'At his most obvious affinity, Emily Dickinson, I can only glance. It seems to me that he contains in far finer form ...