Through television, Moyers connected Americans with poets at street level, an especially valuable gift since few of us get to ...

Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language. By Gregory Cowles If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry ...

7 modern poems you should read for National Poetry Month. ... Heart-wrenching as it is beautiful, ... This poem is a slightly humorous tale about a protagonist and her friend who owns about 300 goats.

His editorial intention was to show modern poetry whole — that is, made up of folk song, light verse, and the long epic as well as the lyric and the reflective poem, and the intention was a good ...

Memory of sun seeps from the heart. ... Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was a Russian poet and a leading light of modern Russian poetry of the 20th century.

Award-winning spoken-word poet and performer IN-Q inspires us to “Inquire Within” and use that to transform ourselves and the world around us.

Yet in modern times, as most poetry has abandoned the traditions of meter and rhyme for free verse, it is song that perpetuates these ancient ways of speaking to the heart and soul of humans.

Where: The Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard St. Cost: $23-$27; tickets are available at www.themoderntheater.org, or through the box office at (509) 455-7529. The very title of Andrew Lippa ...

TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93.