Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

I chose this line from Carl Sandburg’s poem as the title for a University of Arizona OLLI course I teach because it shows how a poem can come softly padding into your life and take you by surprise, ...

Even during the Great Depression, people were willing to pay $5 a person to be part of the packed audience that listened to Vachel Lindsay in Washington, D.C. It was the poet’s final performance, said ...

Every summer, the city repairs 10 miles of sidewalk — and your words could be literally set in concrete. St. Paul’s Sidewalk Poetry Contest is returning this spring, allowing people of all ages across ...

FAIRHOPE, Alabama — “Dancing is the poetry of the foot,” wrote John Dryden. The English poet and playwright could not have imagined the kind of “poetry” being written in dance studios of the 21st ...

This totally silly literary miscellany is “loosely inspired” by Isaac D’Israeli’s 1791 bestseller “The Curiosities of Literature.” It is for people who read too much, so much that the odd bits ...

This totally silly literary miscellany is “loosely inspired” by Isaac D’Israeli’s 1791 bestseller “The Curiosities of Literature.” It is for people who read too much, so much that the odd bits ...