Love poems didn’t start as private confessions. For much of their history, they were closer to public performances—tools for politics, status, ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of Saturday profiles of area residents and their stories. To suggest a profile, contact features editor Burton Cole at bcole@tribtoday.com. AUSTINTOWN — One day ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. “Old Orchard Beach Cycle: Poems” by Robert Gibbons; Littoral Books, Portland ...

To her early 20th-century audience, Tsilye Dropkin’s Yiddish poetry was as shocking for its content as its form. A Russian-born poet who immigrated to New York City at the age of 25, Dropkin broke ...

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 ...