Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds ...

See the origins, lyrics, and variations of Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, a classic nursery rhyme with historical significance and timeless appeal.

Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn has a book coming out next year that reveals how she has been shaped by the power of words. HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced ...

As if it were a jump shot from their basketball-obsessed childhood, “soaring towards the rim like a kite,” Andrea Gibson ...

A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.