On Saturday, poets of every stripe will take to the streets for Philadelphia Poetry Day. Dozens of poets — and would-be poets — will position themselves on stages, on street corners, and in shopping ...

In the first chapter of “My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer,” a book Christian Wiman wrote in the wake of a bone marrow transplant to treat his incurable blood cancer, he introduces us ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images/Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly When my sister was in the sixth ...

Six and a half years ago, some folks at Collaborative Arts Insurgency began hosting a weekly, guerrilla-style poetry slam on a Mission District street corner that has taken on a life of its own. What ...

If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, most likely from reading Shakespeare, and perhaps even other meters like trochaic tetrameter (the ...