The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by ...

This week’s poem, by James Brasfield, offers a dream-like meditation on a grandfather, memory, and an ever-shifting sense of ...

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 ...

From the sonnets of William Shakespeare to the writings of Walt Whitman and the rejuvenating words of Amanda Gorman, poetry is indelibly writ into the fabric of not only popular culture, but the ...

The National Book Foundation announced on Thursday the winner of the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize, its annual social-impact-through-literature award. Each year the foundation honors one ...

This week’s poem, by Kerem Durdag, is a paean to roses, a mother who loved and listened to them, and the enduring love of a ...

Researchers discovered the copy of the 1,300-year-old poem lurking inside a historical text in an Italian library ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.