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For National Poetry Month, city of Charleston poet laureate AsiahMae is reading a poem every day via a video on Instagram.
"Penguin Poets" has released two new poetry books, "The Space Between Men" by Mia S. Willis and "Is This My Final Form?" by ...
Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...
Maya Angelou is the second poet in history to read a poem during a presidential inauguration; Robert Frost was the first ...
While an author reads, she cannot know that three people are filming her: husband, daughter and granddaughter. It's a moment ...
When you spend time with poetry, you expect a certain kind of relationship between author and reader. That’s only part of ...
Milwaukee therapist Cedric Hoard, a former spoken word artist, is now also a published author after a sold-out book signing ...
Poems don’t give you news, they give you inspiration. Poems don’t give you knowledge, they heighten your sensitivity. Poems don’t give you information, they increase your empathy.
Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...
Poet and essayist Márquez Price has often acknowledged in his writing the influence of his father, Tucson educator Delano ...
It’s not just that we’re in an economic meltdown. It’s how we got here that blows,” writes columnist Stephanie Finucane.
O, Miami Poetry Festival gets underway with a new public art initiative: “Soy de Todas Partes.” The civic publishing project ...