Good poetry can help us hold two opposing ideas in our minds at once. For instance: A new year is a blank page, waiting for us to write on it. It is a chance to begin all over again. A new ...

Tom Angleberger is the author of the popular Origami Yoda series and the Flytrap Files series, as well as several other books ...

Emperor Naruhito composed a poem about the aspirations of children he has met around Japan for the annual New Year Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 22. The event’s theme th ...