The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published ...

I feel that as a lack, and one that poetry can assuage. So this was my year of bafflement, gratitude and makeshift, heathen faith. As ever, I can’t claim to have read all the hundreds of books ...

It’s often a measured and sonorous free verse ... 173 0523 or visit Telegraph Books Midway through An Arbitrary Light Bulb, Ian Duhig’s ninth volume of poetry, he gets to “The Point”.

After lunch, we do a book launch. A friend who lives next door has her second book of poems out; With Earth as My Witness has just been published by Red River Press. She reads Slow Road to Manali ...

COLLECTED POEMS (180 pp.)—Marianne Moore—Macmillan ($3). Marianne Moore is a spinster who has lived on the same quiet Brooklyn street for more than 20 years. Strolling through nearby Ft.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Down all the frosty ages you can hear them echoing behind us. Listen. SIMON: Now that poem is a children's book. COOPER: It's a family celebration of the light coming back after the dark threatens to ...

Down all the frosty ages you can hear them echoing behind us. Listen. SIMON: Now that poem is a children's book. COOPER: It's a family celebration of the light coming back after the dark threatens ...