Mayor Michelle Wu and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture announced Thursday, April 17, that Oppong-Yeboah will be the ...

Wouldn’t this old world be better, If the folks we meet would say, ‘I know something good about you!’ And then treat us just that way?” So begins a poem ...

If you’ve ever talked about “the birds and the bees” or referenced “the best laid plans of mice and men,” then you’ve inadvertently quoted some of the English language’s most famous poets.

Winners of the Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize gave a reading of selected poems at the Austin Building’s Stern Lounge on April 10.

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

April is National Poetry Month. Celebrated across the U.S. and Canada, the observance spreads appreciation and awareness for ...

Jean Prokott—a decade-long Century High School English teacher, the city’s third Poet Laureate, a recent recipient of a $50K poetry grant—just wants to bring us together.

His novels and poetry have earned international acclaim, and he was the first Canadian ever to win the Booker Prize — in 1992, for the wartime story The English Patient. Born in Sri Lanka and ...

“Poetry is the art of compression, of saying in a few well-chosen words, enhanced with rhythm and musicality of language what might take many more words to express — far less memorably — in prose,” ...

A bloom of English rose ... but the watchman may be a bit too good at his job. This Christmas poem is much longer than the two-stanza excerpt above, but you can read the full work to find ...

Despite wanting to be a doctor at first, Janae Lu, 17, found her high school English classes much more interesting than science.