Various holiday-themed events, including walking tours, plays and activities for families, are taking place in Northwest ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals. You may not ...

A month before COVID struck, I took a course in writing poetry. I chose poetry for the same reason I might have chosen opera ...

This fun event gives students the opportunity to perform poems and short stories in front of their families and teachers.

More than 1,600 middle school students from across Wayne County gathered this week for an unforgettable experience as part of Literacy for Kids’ annual event series. The program, which took place at ...

The singular, disconcerting uneasiness that is so characteristic of Joy Williams’ fiction, yet so hard to pin down, is once again dazzlingly on display in her latest collection, “The Pelican Child.” ...

Kid lit experts weigh in on some of the year's best science titles. Plus, what to look for when choosing a book for the child in your life.

Daryln Brewer Hoffstot is the author of a collection of essays, “A Farm Life: Observations From Fields and Forests.” My husband loves all the trimmings of Thanksgiving, particularly mashed potatoes. I ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

In our fraught modern world, poets are rarely celebrities. But celebrities sometimes get their poems published. Certain people (disgruntled scribblers) may scoff at this. What do Megan Fox, James ...

A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative director of children’s publisher Scholastic, he helped design and execute the ...