Virginia’s Lt. Gov-elect Ghazala Hashmi (D) holds a PhD in poetry and selected five poems for fellow Democrats that brought her comfort over the past year.

A comprehensive list of eight new books, from poetry to memoirs, hitting the shelves from the tail-end of 2025 to the ...

Quote of the day attributed to Robert Frost survives not because it flatters diplomacy, but because it distils it. In a ...

In response to the murder of Renee Good by ICE in Minneapolis, Robin Ince has written a poem of defiance for Big Issue.

Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, SC, honored the life of Black poet Phillis Wheatley on Jan. 30 with a commemorative USPS stamp and a day in her honor.

Can a few lines of verse, make commuting less worse? That, in essence, is the question asked four decades ago by Judith Chernaik, an American writer in London ...

Dia dos Namorados is also commemorated in June because February conflicts with Brazil's epic Carnival, which is observed that same month. Similar to how Americans commemorate Valentine's Day, ...

Polish fighters contemplate their future in Wajda’s 1958 film in which the war’s end, far from being a cause for celebration, marks a crisis of identity for their country ...

Plan out which events you will attend during the city's three-day literature festival next weekend.

Kin, an upcoming novel by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, is a story about two best friends, Niecy and Annie, growing up in a small town called Honeysuckle, Louisiana, in the 1950s.

Harjo, the first Native American to serve as national poet laureate, and her successor, Limón, the first Latina in the post, ...

This year’s Women to Watch are in several different fields, from small business to filmmaking to education to nonprofit work.