As a child at the White House, Caroline Kennedy got early lessons in the power of words. Her father, President John F. Kennedy, was famously eloquent. Her mother Jacqueline adored poetry and kept a ...

Thomas Dooley’s debut collection of poems, “Trespass,” published in September, deals with the duality of vulnerability and forgiveness. “I think that sometimes going into a very vulnerable place, or a ...

Author’s note: It’s the time of year when family travel across the country to celebrate, well, something. With so many different personalities, from your MAGA-loving uncle to your non-binary vegan ...

Francisco X. Alarcón, illus. by Maya Christina Gonzalez. Children’s Book Press, $18.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-89239-275-9 This poetry collection from Chicano poet Alarcón, who died in 2016, includes three ...

Each year, the Japanese Imperial family hosts an annual celebration of poetry at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. This year, as they have in years previous, Emperor Nahrutio, Empress Masako, and Princess ...

Kennedy, who created the anthology The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for adult readers, gives this winsome collection a personal feel. In her wintroduction, she describes the pivotal ...

Caroline Kennedy's latest book comes with an agenda: to encourage a return to poetic memorization and recitation that both families and schools once considered routine. In Poems to Learn by Heart, ...

If you celebrate Christmas with family, then you might be feeling two conflicting emotions this morning: boundless joy, and the desperate desire to get away for a few minutes of quiet solitude with ...

Taylor Byas won the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award for “I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times.” It’s the latest selection of the FYI Book Club. Courtesy Taylor Byas Chicago poet Taylor Byas left home on a ...