Two Rockford high school students are headed to the state portion of a national poetry competition. Poetry Out Loud is a ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation on family, friendship and falling in love.

Author Lisa C. Taylor discusses how the awareness of our mortality can animate our writing and improve our lives.

Born Parsi, Sufi of heart and Christian in suffering, Buddhist in his detachment, and Hindu in his sensuality, Hoshang Merchant’s life and poetry weave together ...

For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...

Dolly Parton made her first public appearance since confirming husband Carl Dean’s death earlier this month while celebrating ...

In the midst of turbulent times, it can be hard not to fixate on the troubles of the present moment. Here's how hope can ...

Ruth Padel, poet and author, argues that Fainlight’s feminism is only one of the many strands of her work. “Above all, she’s ...

Poetry is a vessel for greater understanding in the same way that a voice is a vessel for language,” Price said.

Walton Ford, “Tutto” is on at the Gagosian Gallery in New York from March 6–April 19, 2025.

Gene Kahane reflects on five years of posting poems on trees in Alameda, "I’m writing this to say farewell to the five trees ...