Illinois poet laureate Angela Jackson will visit Springfield over five days in March as part of a week of programs honoring the 20th anniversary of Poetry Out Loud, according to Springfield Area Arts ...

On the heels of National Poetry Month Phyllis Schwartz will be launching her third rhyming picture book on March 7 titled ...

Frost’s approachable verse and appealing rural subjects brought him legions of admirers. His personal life was shot through ...

When words are all we have, poetry becomes a lifeline that brings us closer to understanding ourselves and each other. Here ...

An Aquarian Age savant, he was a founder of the artists’ collective USCO, which helped define the 1960s with psychedelic, ...

"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...

Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol are the main men at 175 and duke it out in a fascinating rematch in the main event on ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

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 ...

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