As a child at the White House, Caroline Kennedy got early lessons in the power of words. Her father, President John F. Kennedy, was famously eloquent. Her mother Jacqueline adored poetry and kept a ...

(NAPSI)—You may be able to bring some comfort to your friends and family members who have been grieving a loss in these difficult days. There’s a new book that can help heal the hearts and minds of ...

Thomas Dooley’s debut collection of poems, “Trespass,” published in September, deals with the duality of vulnerability and forgiveness. “I think that sometimes going into a very vulnerable place, or a ...

Francisco X. Alarcón, illus. by Maya Christina Gonzalez. Children’s Book Press, $18.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-89239-275-9 This poetry collection from Chicano poet Alarcón, who died in 2016, includes three ...

In June 2019, Mary Jo Clark, née Holthaus, of Loveland passed away following a hard-fought battle with metastatic breast cancer. They’ve been told it isn’t genetic, but cancer appears to run in the ...

If you celebrate Christmas with family, then you might be feeling two conflicting emotions this morning: boundless joy, and the desperate desire to get away for a few minutes of quiet solitude with ...

Chicago poet Taylor Byas left home on a path of discovery. She met colorful characters along the way, encountered danger and beauty, and learned that what she sought was inside her all along. This ...

Poems don’t necessarily need pictures, nor pictures poems. But children — for whom magic is real and logic overrated — love and need both. In three handsome new poetry collections for children, word ...

Hieu Minh Nguyen‘s poems travel through time. Nguyen, a Minneapolis-based poet who writes on race, queerness and history, dove into the past with “White Boy Time Machine: Instruction Manual.” The ...