In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...

April is National Poetry Month and we'll continue the tradition, started by Constance Alexander, of sharing poems from you on ...

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

It's difficult to overstate the impact Tom Sexton had on generations of Alaska writers. As an English and creative writing professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage for nearly 25 years, Sexton ...

Lee Kuan Yew's maxim that poetry was an unaffordable luxury was of its time. These days it is widely appreciated, and not ...

Doggerel! There I said it. Sometimes words just wander through my mind on their way to somewhere else. That one drifted through just the other morning as I was accompanying Lucy, the Ambassador of ...

That's because the upper room is the meeting place of the Duluth Failed Poets Society from 6-8 p.m. Mondays. If you didn't ...

Berkshire poet David Giannini’s new collection 'Stones Are the First to Rise' explores nature, politics and the shifting ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

The past ten days have been a blur of illness, transforming my life into a nonstop subway with just three stops: bed, ...

Do you ever think about how poetry’s is relevant to politics? Dujie Tahat does. Tahat is Seattle’s new Civic Poet for the ...

Poetry and feminism have always been intertwined but in recent years, many new feminist and queer voices have emerged and ...