ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP)-- Could a poem that serves as a tribute to the state of Minnesota be in line for a tribute itself? Judging by the early reaction, it could prove difficult. A bill that would ...

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 ...

Why so blue? This most calming color has woven itself into the fabric of our language, and it’s hard to imagine a world without the azure hue of the ocean or sky. However, there’s some evidence to ...

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 ...

Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation. (And yes, it's blue.) The fact that a single image could polarize the entire Internet ...

Look at the home screen of your phone and you’ll probably see a ton of blue — Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype, all blue. Glance up at the real world and you’ll notice much the same. GM, Ford, Intel, Boeing, ...