Missouri Poet Laureate David Harrison shares how to fill your own sack of ideas and describes what he keeps in his.

It's the immigrants' fault because they know how to lie really well. They hide their work-filled days and the little time ...

The science-fiction thriller, also featuring Sigourney Weaver, is rather ordinary but is lifted by its performances ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Two snipers stationed on opposite sides of a fog-covered crevice meet cute, and have to protect the world—and each other. There’s an element of the ridiculous to this movie. But also real ...

Speaking from experience, being in a long-distance romantic relationship is difficult solely because of being so far away ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sappho (the poetess) and Alcaeus. What are the top poems inspired by ancient Greece? Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Walters Museum Poetry stands as one of humanity’s oldest art ...

Poems about anxiety and depression recur, as do those about wanting to be free of obligations. “Loving badly,” as she calls it, is another great subject: wanting someone close then pushing ...

Though Pike Place Market is one of the most tourist-heavy attractions in Seattle (plan to run into crowds, especially on the weekends) that's no reason to scratch it off your to-do list.

In reality, though, the first American woman to fly into space was scared — and it had nothing to do with her leaving ... orange external fuel tank in the distance.' This was the greatest ...