A poet laureate is an ambassador for poetry, and for that reason Michael Castro was a fitting choice for St. Louis’ first poet laureate. Castro is a Sephardic Jew who wrote an important book about ...

Bucks County Community College celebrated the 48th annual Bucks County Poet Laureate contest with a reading and reception Nov. 16 at Tyler Hall on the College’s Newtown campus. Featured at the reading ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. On Sunday, Nov. 16, members of Stillpoint Literary Magazine joined the Athens ...

YWCA Evanston/North Shore hosted its second annual open mic poetry reading titled “The Soul of Black Poetry” on Wednesday evening. The Black History Month program focused on poetry centering the Black ...

Inside the Unity of Santa Barbara Chapel, the Blue Whale Reading Series takes place every other month. Hosts Laure-Anne Bosselar and Christine Kravetz revived the series in 2023 after founder Steve ...

Old City Hall (OCH) Restoration Committee in Bordentown began its Winter/Spring calendar of events with the annual Fanny Parnell Poetry Reading on Feb. 1. It was a “wonderful afternoon of poetry and ...

Poet, translator and New York University English and Spanish and Portuguese Prof. Urayoán Noel shared his work and discussed ideas in a Thursday poetry reading and Q&A event with Northwestern ...

“Poetry Live!” is not just named as such — event co-host and Jones lecturer Hieu Minh Nguyen invited the audience to engage “not as readers or as listeners, but as active participants in poetry,” and ...