It's wrong to think of self-esteem as a quality that depends only on what we say and do. Self-congratulation is no substitute ...

Massachusetts was one of only three states without a poet laureate, according to the Library of Congress, joined by New ...

The poet laureate will serve as an ambassador for the arts to promote creative expression and inspire writers across the ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on ...

Massachusetts will soon have its first-ever poet laureate. Gov. Maura Healey this week signed an executive order creating the ...

Recent weeks have highlighted the passing of time with three successive occurences that either merited my attention or ...

Watch the celebrated actress recite Maria Woodford’s ‘elegy for a nissan micra’ which came out on top in this year’s time-themed contest ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

Jérôme Sueur’s “Natural History of Silence” and Pico Iyer’s “Aflame” explore the quiet (and the sounds) that sustain us ...

We are taking this year to be a year of hope. Whether you want to manifest something or you need to go somewhere, hope is the ...

Sebastian Currier’s “Mysterium” is based on the husband-and-wife team of scientist Robbert Dijkgraaf and novelist Pia de Jong.