"Flower Power"-era performer Melanie's children Beau Jarred, Leilah and Jeordie have honored her legacy by re-recording a collection of her lullabies.

New Zealand was once a world leader in reading. In the early 1970s, as leading literacy educationalist Warwick Elley reminds us, Kiwi teenagers performed best of all countries participating in the ...

Lalit Pandit fondly remembers Majrooh Sultanpuri, recalling their initial collaboration on 'Bin Tere Sanam' and how it ...

The film follows Bobby and his grandmother as they visit a bookstore for Bobby's birthday, where he chooses a book about ...

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of references to the porpoises. According to Mei, the fact that a freshwater mammal ...

As of Tuesday, the new Illinois Poet Laureate is named Mark Turcotte and this is a portion of one of his poems, the beginning stanza of “Flies Buzzing.” “Mark Turcotte’s work reflects the ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

Let us know! Evan Wang, a graduating senior at Upper Merion Area High School, has been named this year’s national youth poet laureate. He is the first male youth poet laureate in the program’s ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

Laughter, as I wrote in my March post, is good for our health. So is poetry! Evolutionary biologists tell us laughter has helped our species survive. Scientists may soon make that claim for poetry.

Author A.A. Milne based the characters in his book Winnie-the-Pooh, which was published in 1926, after his son (Christopher Robin Milne) as well as his son's soft toys. In 1921, A.A. Milne bought ...