On Monday night, Jimmy Kimmel returned to his monologue with the kind of gift late-night writers pray for: an alleged erotic ...

When the kids in the neighborhood see the Jabberwocky Art Mobile truck pull up, many of them come running. When the truck is ...

The White House has issued a cutting response to Joan Baez’s new poem speculating that a “little green worm” may have eaten its way through President Donald Trump’s brain. In its opening lines, Baez ...

The White House has issued a cutting response to Joan Baez’s new poem speculating that a “little green worm” may have eaten its way through President Donald Trump’s brain. The singer-songwriter and ...

The last two words received in a letter from the late, much-missed Manchán Magan... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Two Words for Manchán, a poem by Noelle Lynskey above. Cúan Ciúin.

There is a particular way Matthew McConaughey speaks when he is circling an idea he does not want to let go of. The sentences roll, stop, double back. A word, “belief,” becomes a refrain, a drumbeat.

Matthew McConaughey has always had a Texas-twang way with words - most famously with his signature "Dazed and Confused" line, "alright, alright, alright." Now the actor has turned his words a poetry ...

And when those white-sailed ships piled us together, cargo in the hull of hell, the word rode with us, our tongues anointed with the power of God. When the lash found our language, when they said ...

He was an artist and activist who found in his verse a tool for both community and agitprop. It’s never been easy to survive as an American poet, but the late 20th century was especially tough. The ...

Many years ago I heard some marvelous advice from the co-director of the UCLA Writing Project, Jane Hancock, about choosing the right words. She was speaking of prose, but I think it’s extra-good ...