Elliott Bay Book Company hosted a reading co-sponsored by UW EarthLab and the Washington Sea Grant on Jan. 14 in celebration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. poems to read on a break The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you ...

B rookline, M ass.—For years before the pandemic, our father, the poet David Ferry, accepted invitations to read in public on any pretext: an academic conference, a bookstore benefit, indoors, ...

Jeanne Julian is author of Like the O in Hope and two chapbooks. Her poems and book reviews have been published in numerous ...

Is it just me, or is Poetry Month everywhere this year? Poet Mary Ruefle had something to say about this: Every April, since the establishment of National Poetry Month, I receive a call from my local ...

Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather’s house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Over the river, and through the wood— Oh, how the ...

30 Poems in November! is a literary fundraiser in support of literacy programs at Center for New Americans in Northampton. Writers commit to write one poem a day for the 30 days of November. Some ...

Charlotte, Editor-in-Chief: “The Writing Life” by Annie Dillard I love Annie Dillard. “The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and ...

It was Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s sharp-edged prose in Civil Lines: New Writing from India (published by Ravi Dayal) that I ...

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and other members of the imperial family held their annual poetry event where they presented ...