Stegner’s response, which he said later was written in a single afternoon, was an off-the-cuff riff on why he cared about ...

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, writes .

Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a ‘lawnmower poetry microgenre’, using the machine to explore childhood, masculinity, violence, ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

The study, published today in Critical Quarterly, argues that the tradition goes back to the 17th-century poet Andrew Marvell who used mowing – with a ...

A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

In New York, David Nolan Gallery presents a centennial exhibition on the pioneering artist, poet, and gardener Ian Hamilton ...

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is ...

Princess Kate is adding “filmmaker” to her royal résumé, and her debut is as heartfelt as it gets. The Princess of Wales just ...