As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky that even native English speakers with college degrees may struggle to get ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

Things get going with the Word.Art Opening on Thursday, October 24, an exhibit of visual art related to the written word with work by Claire Millikin, Marechal Brown, Stu Kestenbaum, and others.

Style Invitational Week 1506: Let’s go magnet fishing with new words. Write a short poem with one of these terms recently added to the dictionary. Plus winning ‘hi’-word limericks.

Nonetheless, Hopkins's selection of poems about words will delight both teachers and children who want to think about the power and satisfaction words and books can bring. Ages 6-11. (Mar.) ...

Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail.