Kernersville’s Stan Lake, a writer, photographer, naturalist and military veteran, has led an interesting life and like his ...

Three hundred people filled the Merrill Cultural Center to hear celebrated poet Ellen Bass deliver the keynote presentation ...

Arthur Sze, the national poet laureate appointed by the Library of Congress last month, visited Queens College, in Flushing, ...

National Poet Laureate Arthur Sze will host a free public reading, “Words Bridging Worlds: On Poetry and Translation,” at Queens College, in Flushing, on Dec.

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Centrum has joined with Poetry on the Salish Sea to present a poetry reading and celebration of Copper Canyon Press poets at ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

Anyone who dragged through Chaucer and Milton, Dickinson and Plath in any standard English-lit course has got to be surprised by this news: Poetry reading is up in America while reading books for ...

COMMENTARY: Great literature shows us who we are. It is like a mirror that shows us ourselves. It shows us our character, our ...

In September, the National Endowment for the Arts published surprising new data: poetry reading in the United States has almost doubled over five years. A 2012 NEA survey had found that only 7 percent ...