In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

A Memoir of Romance and Divorce ,” Mlotek writes that her experience “hadn’t defined my feelings, but it had changed the ...

While all these proposals have various degrees of merit, only the school cellphone restrictions seem targeted, urgently ...

In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits.

Ken Waldman has toured North America as Alaska’s Fiddling Poet, combining Appalachian-style string-band music with “smart” ...

Prolific author, publisher and editor Felice Picano died at his home in Los Angeles on March 12 of lymphoma. He was 81. Since ...

"Are you going to call it ‘A Tale of Two Bookshops’?" Craig Florence, owner of Mother Foucault's asks. We are not. The Mercury merely finds it interesting that two of Portland's most beloved literary ...

Ira Joe Fisher is set to launch his newest poetry collection, “The Birth of Snow,” at a book signing event March 26 hosted at the Ridgefield Library ...

A round-up of news briefs from CT Mirror reporters about this week's happenings at the Connecticut General Assembly.

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

The international impact is undeniable. “Lord of the Mysteries” holds the global record for web novel subscriptions with over ...