There’s joy in writing terrible poetry. In looking back at it and laughing a little. It’s the joy of having tried something ...

Wayne Lee of Santa Fe says there are three ways readers can think of his new book, “Dining on Salt: Four Seasons of Septets.” ...

In honor of the city's bicentennial, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell is writing a series of poems centered on the community, its people, and its past, present and future. Those poems will ...

Hallaj’s mystical utterance to Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s revolutionary verse, South Asia’s poetic traditions have long intertwined ...

‘They say a poet can change your life,’ a woman tells me in a hotel lift. We’re in Durban, South Africa, where I’m appearing ...

As Americans continue to weather the pandemic, many have been turning to poetry: According to the executive director of the Academy of American Poets, traffic to the organization’s site ...

AKA Casey Gomez Walker, Spencer Tweedy, Max Subar, Scott Daniel, and Jason Ashworth – have announced their debut album Last Missouri Exit, alongside the release of its lead single, "Bitter Root Lake".

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

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A Phillips Collection show places the work of Washington, D.C., poet Essex Hemphill alongside artwork his life and writing ...

Harvey Mudd College senior computer science and mathematics major Emilynne Newsom recently won the college-level 2025 ...

Ian McMillan's guests are the Scottish Makar Peter Mackay, Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison, as well as Indian dancer and poet Tishani Doshi, and the musician Scanner.