Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

Brenda Cárdenas is Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate. As the state’s ambassador for poetry, the Milwaukee native hopes to inspire creativity through workshops, projects and meeting with young people.

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

Kesey explores familial dynamics in this 1964 novel set in a fictional town on the Oregon Coast during a logging strike. His epic novel centers on two brothers, Hank and Lee Stamper, and their ...

Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad – and it shows. Just as the title promises, the prose of this novel sings ...

Founded by the Edmonds Arts Commission in 1985, Write on the Sound (WOTS) is a long-standing annual writers’ conference ...

Sneak peek at upcoming street fairs, festivals, concerts, performances, art shows, library events, community meetings and ...

When Shakespeare wrote his tragedy Coriolanus he was coming off the back of an outrageous run of successes. In just a few years he’d penned Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. This ...

Haiku written by local children as part of the Rain Poetry project by nonprofit PA Humanities will soon be displayed on ...

Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds ...

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf.

Writing poems following my lymphoma diagnosis gave me hope and purpose as I endured chemo, helping me heal and share my ...