If you want to sell newspapers, a great man (me) once said, you'll NEVER mention the word poetry. I think our Managing Editor Rachel Townsend (much greater than me) would agree, but she gives me ...

Part 2 of our in-depth interview with Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha, whose latest book of poetry is Forest of Noise.

This week’s poetry connection comes from former Indy intern, Leticia Hernández-Linares, a poem published in her first ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

The first poem opens with a visceral depiction of pain, likening it to a form of paralysis that “blooms with gloom” and ...

SacRT is offering free rides in exchange for poems on Sacramento Poetry Day. The agency said that on Saturday, October 26, fixed-route bus and light rail riders can share an ...

Nikki Giovanni, MC Lyte, Rakim, and others came together on Saturday to show how vital lyricism is to uplifting minorities ...

As you make your way deeper into the gallery of our campus’ Fine Arts Building, 12 scrolls unfurl from the ceiling to the ...

In the excellent conclusion to his trilogy on chronic illness, Waldrep (The Earliest Witnesses) probes the nature of pain, ...

It is October. Everything is overturning,” writes Hannah Bonner in her debut book of poetry, Another Woman. “I pack a ...

Naomi Shihab Nye is this year’s winner of the Wallace Stevens Award, a $150,000 lifetime achievement honor named for the celebrated 20th century poet. Nye’s prize was ...

“That we are living in the Valley of the Poets, and it is North Andover for Ann Bradstreet, John Greenleaf Whittier for ...