What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat to her button? A child to his toes? A pebble to the river? Dear Acorn, ...

Some people (academics perhaps) might think it rather sentimental to describe poems as ‘friends’, yet when poetry sustains your emotional life you know it’s true. The Poetry Exchange is a project and ...

Thanks for the reading recommendations, everyone. In case you missed it, I am starting an occasional section of this post called (tentatively) “A Reader Recommends.” From yesterday: “If you’ve read a ...

Many of us fondly remember Shel Silverstein as the voice of our childhoods. We were lulled by the amiable content of collections like Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic and The Giving Tree.

Columbus, Ohio : Follett, Foster, & Co. 1860. pp. 162. THE TWO Friends are Messrs. John J. Piatt and W. D. Howells. The readers of the “Atlantic” have already had a taste of the quality of both, and, ...