Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

On the 85th anniversary of Joseph Brodsky's birth, we revisit the exiled Nobel laureate who never stopped writing in Russian ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.