Ainslie Jones Uhl wraps up “The Compass Rose,” her episodic reflections on creating a new life in Southern California, with the promise of new topics to come.

For Poetry Friday, honoring the work of acclaimed Iranian poet Simin Behbahani, 82, who recently told the BBC that the Tehran authorities had blocked her from going abroad.

Veteran cookbook editor Judith Jones is back with a book of her own — and, writes Susan Delson, it’s just what you’d expect from the editorial mind behind “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.”

The death of the Maryland poet laureate and mentor for millions sent shockwaves through the poetry world.

When we sat down to close our wonderful winter series with Poet-in-Residence Lisa Russ Spaar, the theme of the poem below felt a particular serendipity: today is the official kickoff [...]

Many of us remember the day we first ran across Our Bodies, Ourselves, as something of a revelation; perhaps you even picked up the more recent edition of the same [...]

My evening commute takes me along a highway that could be Anywhere, USA — a rootless route of chain restaurants, box stores, motels, gas stations. One evening, stopped at a [...]

Late November
On a Tuesday night, a couple of weeks after having moved into our new apartment, I found myself taking a swig from a wine bottle while balancing atop my [...]

Late October, 2009
On a Wednesday evening in late October, my ten-year-old daughter and I rolled a suitcase across the park that is Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Heights, New York. It [...]

You may recall that earlier in 2009 we celebrated Lisa Russ Spaar with these words from the judges of the Library of Virginia Literary Award: “her poems ‘abound in surprising [...]