"Some people have an idea a day," writes John Ashbery in "And the Stars Were Shining," Judging by his prodigious recent output - Ashbery's "Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems" gathers poems from ...

These poems by Mainers appeared in “Notes from an Open Book,” a monthly e-newsletter of the Maine Humanities Council. SMELT SHACKS By Joseph Coleman The frost-heaved road lined with cord on cord of ...

SOME have tried to make us believe that what Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend, once uttered must be considered the world’s shortest poem. He said: “Me Whee!” On the other hand, Aram Saroyan’s poem that ...

TO acknowledge the role of translations and translators in connecting the people of different nations, International Translation Day is celebrated on Sept 30 every year. But this year, the day was ...