X.J. Kennedy, a poet, author, translator and educator whose many awards include an Los Angeles Times Book Prize, has died at ...

Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for ...

WPSU is asking Pennsylvania students in kindergarten through 12th grade to submit their poems for the 2026 WPSU Poetry Writing Contest. Winning poets will be given the opportunity to read their work ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar became the first Black writer to earn international acclaim through his poetry, essays and musical ...

For members of the Southern Minnesota Poets Society in Mankato, poetry is an opportunity to take personal, authentic, even daily and seemingly mundane experiences and turn them into something vivid ...

Sandy McPherson Geary is a Poet, Writer and Host of "The Screening Room Poetry Series". MCL: When did you start Writing? What did you first started Writing about? SMG: I first began writing while in ...

The weekly Writers’ Block Poetry Night has some elements you might expect. At a recent show, many poets signed up to read pieces on grief and identity, generating snaps and applause from the audience.

The result was Poems on the Underground, a project that turns 40 this year and has been copied in cities around the world. Since 1986, many millions of London Underground passengers have seen posters ...

A once-promising writer learns some painful lessons in a tragicomic Colombian tale.