IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...

Old Indian poems and folk songs are revealing a surprising truth about the land. Scientists found that descriptions of thorny trees and open grasslands in texts written as far back as the 1200s ...

I like Old. Great Depression worn-in (not worn-out) favorite quilt classic car. I like the way Old feels. Sheets washed a thousand times frayed around the stitching busting from stories. I like the ...

When Bob Holman opened the Bowery Poetry Club in 2002, it was with visions of Ginsberg, Burroughs, and the Beats floating around in his head. He was 54 and already a legend, pioneering spoken-word ...

Every New Year’s Eve at midnight, after the luminous multicolored ball drops and couples exchange their midnight kisses, a familiar question can be heard echoing throughout throngs of partygoers: ...

WATFORD CITY, N.D. — Ten years ago, I wrote a little poem that asked a young girl to show us around her home on the ranch. I had just moved back to my family’s ranch in western North Dakota and was ...