In the literary world, she's "off the grid." Kay Ryan, 58, has taught remedial English at College of Marin part time for 33 years. Living quietly in Fairfax, she devoted the bulk of her time to ...

Joel Long—English teacher at Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s and a recipient of a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Utah—has found that looking at paintings for subject matter and ...

If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and poems in ...

All 1,789 poems will be read in the order they are published in “The Poems of Emily Dickinson,” edited by Ralph W. Franklin, copies of which will be provided at the event. Independent bookstore ...

Maria Dahvana Headley’s revisionist translation infuses the Old English poem with feminism and social-media slang, Ruth ... which runs three thousand one hundred and eighty-two lines long.