The complete version contains about 800 examples of irregular spelling and pronunciation, and although the poem is meant to be read with British English pronunciations in mind, it doesn't make much ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.