Michael Dennis Browne, internationally-known poet and librettist who lived in Minneapolis, died Sunday of heart failure at a ...

Massachusetts native Katharine Lee Bates spent the summer of 1893 teaching Geoffrey Chaucer and English drama at Colorado Summer School of Science, a program of Colorado College. The 24-year-old ...

Maggie Smith's poem "Good Bones" went viral in 2016. She talks with NPR's Miles Parks about her work and her divorce, both subjects of her new memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful." In 2016, a ...

As part of the University of Wynwood reading series, poet Roger Reeves is appearing at Lester’s Bar this Friday. UW founder P. Scott Cunningham recently spotted Reeves at a writers’ conference. He was ...

Michael Fortune, a proud Wexford man, celebrates his home with an evocative, beautiful poem, a tribute to his home county.

Arisa White’s new book of poetry, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened, can be encapsulated by one of its lines: how lovers look at each other when they have seen beneath the clothes. As a ...

We're only two months into 2021, but suffice to say it's already been a year of firsts—and that now includes a poetry recital at a major football game. Amanda Gorman became the first poet to ever ...

A strong and healthy marriage is like a well-crafted poem, full of beauty, depth, and emotion. Just as Black poets use words to convey the most profound feelings, couples can also find inspiration and ...

Poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni, 81, died on December 9. Her prolific work tackled complicated subjects, including racial justice, gender equality, and sexuality tenderly for decades. She ...

“Over the weekend at the Elmwood Village Art Festival, we had a poetry tent where festival-goers wrote a line or two of poetry. We put together the lines for this poem about Buffalo. It’s titled, ...

Maggie Smith's poem "Good Bones" went viral in 2016. She talks with NPR's Miles Parks about her work and her divorce, both subjects of her new... Poet Maggie Smith on her new memoir 'You Could Make ...