McCrae has been exploring the afterlife in his poetry for several years now, and here his reimagining of Dante’s Inferno is ...

Dec. 19—So many beautiful books with lyrical texts were published this year, it's hard to chose one as This Season's Best. But we chose, anyway. Kudos to "Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright," made of an ...

Humans are sweaty beasts, but it turns out many other animals have different ways to keep cool. Staff of the Maryland Zoo help explain how their residents regulate their temperatures.

Carolyn Wells (1862–1942) began writing light verse, especially for children, in an era in which many others were doing the same thing. The market was vast, with The New York Sun and nearly all other ...

One thing that's nice about having pets, they give you unconditional love. But how might they think about you if they could speak for themselves? Poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander is asking you to ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 years ...

a pamphlet about vivisection from a penpal. (Penpals used to be a thing. As did pens.) I was at an Island’s Restaurant in Pasadena and my young friend and I couldn’t get furry and feathered faces out ...

Verity Spott’s “On Jasmine” gathers its energy, as a storm does, until ordinary acts assume extraordinary proportions. The poem operates by a kind of fairy logic: mesmerizing, oneiric, enchanted, with ...

So many beautiful books with lyrical texts were published this year, it’s hard to chose one as This Season’s Best. But we chose, anyway. Kudos to “Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright,” made of an animal poem ...

Humans are sweaty beasts, but it turns out many other animals have different ways to keep cool. Staff of the Maryland Zoo help explain how their residents regulate their temperatures. Now a story ...