Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I traveled two hours to see Matthew McConaughey the poet perform in Brooklyn with a little help from his friend Jon Bon Jovi.

There is a particular way Matthew McConaughey speaks when he is circling an idea he does not want to let go of. The sentences roll, stop, double back. A word, “belief,” becomes a refrain, a drumbeat.

Two time-stamped poems are taken from a book-length sequence tracking the human moments of a factory night shift ...

Like most all of us, I’m trying to navigate and adapt as shrewdly as I can to our changing times. To understand where I fit in, where I don’t, define what I stand for, and what I won’t. But I find ...

but the best, the one that signifies the purest greatness. So improbable! To have met you at all and then to have been told in your soft young voice so soon after meeting you: "I love you." And I felt ...

Waiting alone on the subway platform to catch a train to Brooklyn, Matthew Rohrer was thinking about how much he missed creating collaborative poetry with a particular friend, a fellow poet. In his ...

In time for the Giants' home opener on Tuesday, we present "Poem for Giants," by Matthew Zapruder. The poem appears in Zapruder's new collection, "Sun Bear" (Copper Canyon Press; $17 paperback). It is ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Matthew McConaughey is rarely at a loss for words — or catchphrases. But when he stepped onstage at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, N.Y., this week, he admitted he was nervous. The ...