For thousands of years, humans have been creating stories — and for just as long, they’ve been coming up with words to describe all the tools and techniques that make a story work. But these “literary ...

To introduce or review and practice recognizing the parallels between literary devices and their anologuess in 2D visual art, such as symbolism, irony, allusion, repetition, mood, and personification ...

Gregory Orr, above, and Sam King will discuss “Can poetry save your life?” in the Guild Hall on Sunday, April 8. It’s National Poetry Month. Who cares? What good is poetry, anyway? Poet Gregory Orr ...

Literature is fragile. It serves no obvious purpose. But it is also as close to immortal as any cultural endeavor has ever ...

“It is better to present one image in a lifetime,” the poet Ezra Pound wrote in his essay “A Few Don’ts,” “than to produce voluminous works.” What was a staple of early modernists like Pound — the ...