Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that veiled ...

Readers and fans of Andrea Gibson’s work offered an outpouring of love, grief and touching tributes Monday about how the poet ...

A stunning trove of letters from Elizabeth Bishop to her therapist sheds light on the personal secrets that shaped her poetry.

Silence the inner critic, says New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, who recommends writing for yourself, without judgment.

The Montana Cowboy Poetry Gathering is just around the corner. Bill Garcia, Montana Cowboy Poetry Board member and long-time ...

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Detroit poet laureate jessica Care moore talks new children's book "Your Crown Shines," film tour, Juneteenth poetry event and creative projects ahead.

Not long ago, "only poets read poetry" was meant as damning criticism. Now it is a proven marketing strategy. The situation has become a paradox, a Zen riddle of cultural sociology.

Each day, she took long walks through the dunes to settle her mind before writing. The experience reinforced for her “the healing power of poetry and nature combined, and the way it can bring you back ...

The University of Connecticut’s creative writing program hosted their second Long River Reading Series (LRRS) event of the year on Wednesday, Nov. 13, in the Austin Building’s Stern Lounge.

An early long poem, “New Hampshire,” foreshadows the sly folksiness that would later endear him to native moralists, lady schoolteachers, and miscellaneous middlebrows.