Shel Silverstein was one of the most talented poets of the last century. If you were a kid who grew up in America, you grew up with his songs, poems, and maybe one or two cartoons that he made, too.

Norah Pollard spent her childhood in Pawtucket, R.I., and now lives in Stratford, where she began to write poetry in her mid-40s. She received the Academy of American Poets Prize from the University ...

After he saw a Neighbors column about small towns, Larry Munson, New Rockford, N.D., sent in his poem that he thinks might bring back memories for folks who once lived in a North Dakota (or other ...

With previously uncollected or unpublished works, a definitive edition deepens our understanding of the Nobel laureate’s ...

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She placed the book on her dressing table next to a framed photo of her with her ...