“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that ...

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

The University of Wisconsin’s Creative Writing Department is one of the nation’s few fully funded programs in creative ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

On city streets, buildings are laid out in a pattern that, along with the spaces between them, form an iamb – a prosodic element of poetry, in which an unaccented syllable is followed by an ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

National Poetry Month will be celebrated with “A Wandering Poet” event on April 24, featuring Edmund Baranowski. The series continues in May and June with readings by Catherine Doty on May 15 ...

Feb. 11 – Pellissippi State Community College Strawberry Plains Campus Knoxville Poet Laureate Black Atticus will give a poetry reading honoring Black History Month at 1 p.m. Feb. 11 in the ...

The event also featured 10 poems by members of the public selected from 16,250 poems ... The Emperor expressed his delight in his poem. In June last year, the Empress, together with the Emperor, ...

Carolyn “June” Gilliland, 97, entered her heavenly home on Saturday, January 18, 2025 at Our Hospice of South Central Indiana. June was born in Kansas, IN near the Camp Atterbury area on ...