Shelley Chen isn’t really a swimmer. Instead, the idea of basing A Memoir Blue, an interactive poem about a swimming champion and her mother, largely underwater came to Chen in the bath. Chen told ...

A 21st-century troubadour’s lament, from the country musician and poet Julian Talamantez Brolaski. By Julian Talamantez Brolaski Selected by Anne Boyer In “wild and blue,” the country musician and ...

Blue is the color of the ocean and the sky, and considering blue's color symbolism, it makes sense why this color is associated with calmness. In fact, one survey found that blue is a favorite color ...

What do Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, jazz and the middle passage all have in common? Scholar and author Imani Perry explains — it's the color blue. In her new book, Black in Blues: How a Color ...