On a frosty February morning in Kabul, Lima Aafshid’s face glows in the pale blue light of her smartphone. She is reciting the words of 13th century Afghan poet Jalaluddin Rumi. Speaking in Dari, her ...

Portrait of Marianne Moore by George Platt Lynes from the exhibit, “Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets” at the National Portrait Gallery, courtesy of the museum Historian and poet David Ward ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

More than 30 Minnesota women poets will read at Open Book on Saturday, celebrating publication of a new anthology to which they contributed, and Thom Tammaro, co-editor of “To Sing Along the Way,” can ...

This is the second in a series interviewing independent publishers about how they operate. Two Sylvias Press is a poetry publisher run by Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy, which ...

“It appears to make sense, for many reasons, to have anthologies of women writers or exhibits of women photographers; it would seem very odd to propose an anthology of writers or an exhibit of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Four Greenwich women recently channeled the spirits of some of history's greatest women poets in "Sisters Across the Centuries," a dramatic reading of verse from English and American writers from the ...

A new poetry collection connects Herat, Afghanistan, to Duluth, Minn., proving that poetry transcends geography and culture. “Load Poems Like Guns,” edited and translated by former Air Force officer ...

True liberation comes from within. [ spotlight ] The shocking image of Nazia, an 18-year-old Afghan woman whose nose and ears were sliced off by her husband, appeared on the cover of Time in August ...