STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Haikus, acrostics, concrete and blackout poems. That's what Mary Zanfini, English professor at Empire State College, has been teaching her students this past semester. Zanfini, ...

So many women carry deep emotional scars — yawning wounds from childhood, an early love, and other injuries that feel like they happened yesterday (and maybe they did). Fortunately, there's a way to ...

On Thurday students read their most exemplary poetic pieces. Photo by Pixabay via Pexels. On Thursday evening, the University of Connecticut hosted the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, an organization ...

A native of West Virginia, local poet Barbara Marie Minney writes personal and emotional poetry that captures what it’s like to “live her truth” as a transgender woman. She began her transition to ...

Longer than he's lived in Oregon, longer than he's written essays, longer than he's penned novels, Floyd Skloot has been a poet. In April, Tupelo Press published "Selected Poems: 1970-2005" ($17.95, ...

At the 44th edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) 2025, held under the theme “Between You and a Book,” ...

Before Poetry Out Loud, I thought poetry was for skinny white guys with bad goatees. Now, however, I understand that poetry is all-inclusive. Poetry gives me an outlet, a way to express my feelings in ...

Chronicling the Colorado poet laureate's relationship, work and battle with cancer, Ryan White's Sundance-premiering film is ...

In his “American Notes” in 1842, Charles Dickens told the world about his visit to the new model factory city of Lowell and its young women mill workers whose poems, stories, and essays were being ...

The Butte County Office of Education hosted the 2025 Butte County Poetry Out Loud competition on November 14, bringing ...