Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

Easterine Kire's poetry collection, Freerain, explores nature, memory, and life with lyrical beauty and profound insight.

Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...

If you're looking for a new read, or maybe a new perspective on life, take a look at these four books written by authors on Cape Cod.

Missouri Poet Laureate David Harrison shares how to fill your own sack of ideas and describes what he keeps in his.

Marc Kelly Smith, the founder of the poetry slam movement will host the Lubeznik Center for the Arts First Friday Poetry Slam ...

A west Belfast writer is set to bring poetry to life at the Grand Central Station after being named ‘poet-in-residence’ for ...