Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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Larry Levis’s work, gathered in the expansive new book “Swirl & Vortex,” was equally concerned with the soul and the void.

Hundreds of writing workshops into my long career, I'm still amazed by one particular phenomenon: Whenever I give a single writing prompt to a group of people — of any age! — they will always come up ...

Here are five short game poems, all playable in a web browser, that explore themes of love, intimacy, longing and separation.

In a poem posted on the Players' Tribune website, five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant says that this season will be his last. The 37-year-old Lakers player "is currently struggling through the worst ...

Poetry first originated as a form of expression 4,000 years ago in Babylon, but nowadays countless forms of poems are available for everyone to enjoy. Poetry uses imagery and rhythm as a way to tell ...

Where are the boundaries between adjacent literary forms? When does prose become poetry, poetry become song, song become theater? These bounds are collapsing as contemporary artists experiment. Though ...

In early 2023, the editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) decided not only to include poems in their highly respected professional publication, but also to publish ...

“I’ve looked at pictures, slides my parents took afterwards, and remember how gray and cold and dreary England was in comparison to the vibrant colors of Africa,” said Mark Ford. Born in Nairobi, ...