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"The Book Without Words" begins in medieval England in the simple house of the old and cantankerous magician and presumed alchemist Thorston. His 13-year-old servant girl Sybil and talking raven Odo ...

What if you could read a poem 12 different ways? And not in the sense of unraveling all the cryptic allusions in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Rather than offering a narrative to be read from left to ...

One night at bedtime, my daughter grabbed a book I had purposefully buried in the recesses of her closet. It was a book called Big Berry, and there were maybe a handful of words in the whole book ...

Herman Melville's Moby Dick is a tale told in 212,507 words. Those words, considered to be some of the most classic in the history of literature, are important. But equally important as "Call me ...

Robin Cadwallader shows off her cloth page, which will be sewn together with other pages at the end of the year to create a book without words. Cadwallader teaches free workshops from 6 to 8 p.m. the ...

“Books Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elisabetta Gut” showcases more than 20 of the artist’s works of book-art — collages, poems, books as components of sculptural art and art enmeshed into the ...