Miami groups whose focus ranges from literacy to refugees, poetry to Biscayne Bay’s health, were finalists for a $25,000 award from the Elevate Prize Foundation ...

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...

The Asylum Theatre returns to the Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum for the second annual Solo Play Day Festival with an ...

Kate Atkinson honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award - The winners of this year’s Saltires, Scotland’s National Book Awards ...

These are dark times for those who think the humanities, and the study of poetry in particular, are at the core of the ...

PEN America has announced the winners of its 2025 Prison Writing Awards, honoring 33 incarcerated writers from 20 states for their work in poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, and drama, with the judging ...

Poetry is not easy to compose, nor is it easy to write about. Like music, poetry requires a certain immersion into the composition one hears via their ears or their eyes and assimilated inside their ...

Last week, I found myself browsing the poetry shelves of a public library, a good place to be in difficult and divided times. While there, I picked up and checked out three books. The first was a ...

Poetry is not a practical thing. It's inefficient. It leaves too much space on the page. Its lines are uneven and unpredictable. Its edges are sharp as shards of glass, and what are shards of glass ...

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.