This Bachelor star was a poet and fans didn't know it. On Monday, Lauren Burnham shared Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s childhood poem on Instagram, and the throwback will make Bachelor Nation laugh. Her ...

For recently published author Peter Hoffman, it all began with ferrets. As a child, he would linger in pet stores, watching the ferrets scramble around. He had even created his own comic strip ...

In yesterday’s Poem of the Day, James Weldon Johnson’s speaker meditates on the fraught sense of identity between father and son, the father recognizing himself in his child, but wishing, at least on ...

The Wall Street Journal examines the poem, "Only Child," by Billy Collins, from his new book, "The Rain in Portugal" (Random House, Oct. 4). Below the poem, Collins describes his inspiration for the ...

Maurya Simon, a poet and professor at UC Riverside, is writing a book called “My Father’s Daughter: A Memoir in Five Movements.” (Courtesy of Jamie Clifford) Memory is fickle, quixotic and slippery as ...

It might seem repetitive to be talking about the late Queen of England. We’ve already had the speeches, the parades and finally the service at Westminster Abbey. But since my column skipped a week, I ...