Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.

And whenever I am lost in translation, I peel the metaphor like an orange for you, And hide my poems that suffer from ... you could hide the real meaning behind your words with metaphors.

Ahead of the resumption of the inquiry today, Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden was one of those killed in the bombing, ...

Lines from a poem found nailed on a cabin door in Southern Nevada. This complete poem was read by a member as expressing her love for Nevada. I love you for your sun so bright, for your azure sky so ...

Sterling Morrison spent more than 20 years in Texas living in relative obscurity as one of the founding members of the Velvet ...

The legendary filmmaker will be deploying his passion for practical effects to bring the Greek mythological epic to life.

Have you noticed that when you watch someone move—like watching people dance, or watching your favorite sport—that you almost ...

This weekend in North Jersey, Feb. 6 to Feb. 9, experience music, theater, sports, nature and even a celebration of mac and ...

In her first book of poems, “Helen of Troy, 1993,” Maria Zoccola has beautifully and resourcefully reimagined this mythic material and relocated it to Sparta, Tenn., which is a real town ...

Her superpowers as a philosopher sprung out of the frustration at getting her thoughts and herself across to people who ...

In an age of ideological conformity and technological brain-suck, the world needs more disobedient artists and thinkers.

A new study finds that primate skulls, including those from threatened species such as orangutans, gibbons and proboscis ...