Author Philip Freeman grew up in a military family, moving all around the world before settling in Texas, where he did his undergraduate work in Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He went to graduate school at Harva...

Madcap poetry collection Eunoia by Christian Bök, a Canadian experimental poet, is a major linguistic achievement. Published in 2001, it took him seven years to write and was (eventually) a bestseller in both Canada (where it w...

National Poetry Month was established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 (Canadians are allowed in the club, too, as long as they know the secret password) The goal of the month is to highlight poetry and make it more acc...