A young man from Essex has gone viral for his emotive poetry videos which aim to spark human connection and offer an ...

The politics of The Rot stem from a darker time. If still angry, this book also feels sadder. Despair cannot pass without ...

Since 1999, the Cave Canem Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of Black poets, has awarded an annual prize to a debut poetry collection.

One hug may end a decade of hate. One stranger’s words can melt years of shame. Every day, we pass people quietly carrying ...

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk captures devastating proof of existence through the life of photojournalist Fatma Hassona ...

From metropolitan Austin to the North Carolina mountains, Carrie R. Moore's collection approaches Southern identity from a variety of angles.

Back in May, Blake Shelton returned to his roots, dropping his first album in four years, the winkingly titled For ...

Why are so many poems in today’s magazines about sorrow and misery or freakish, even disturbing language or images? Where are the lust-for-life poems, the poems that crave adventure and new ...

Jake Shane, the host of the "Therapuss" podcast, is developing a half-hour comedy based on himself for Hulu and 20th Television.

Cathlamet Public Library presents an evening with James Dott and Robert Michael Pyle Saturday, Nov. 8 from 6-8 p.m. at the ...

Mackenzie Paul has been battling leukemia for more than two years, but she hasn't given up hope. She's hoping her words can ...

NPR's Scott Detrow sat down with poet Kate Baer at Midtown Scholar, a bookstore in Harrisburg, Penn., to talk about her new book of poetry, How About Now.