The Winter Poetry Festival is coming to Coventry this weekend and will feature live poetry readings from local poets. The Festival, which is sponsored by the Coventry Arts Guild, is set to take place ...

The spoken word event featured poet Sarah Kay and performances from Stanford’s Spoken Word Collective, which disentangled ...

What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At beginnings ...

Last year, the Daily Times wrote about poetry platforms growing in Portsmouth, with the longstanding Port City Café open mic ...

Poetry events kicked up after a slight respite for the holidays. I attended the Blue Whale Reading two weeks ago, featuring ...

Human speech is rich with rhythm. As a person speaks, certain syllables are naturally emphasized, whereas others blend into the background. In this way, regular conversation becomes poetic. Language ...

A once-promising writer learns some painful lessons in a tragicomic Colombian tale.

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

The Leslie Powell Gallery will host a Valentine’s Day poetry reading on Friday at 6 p.m.

Years ago, in my work as a pediatric intensivist, I attended to a child with unstable blood pressure following open-heart surgery. Their vasoactive infusion ran out in the middle of the night, ...