Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

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 ...

There are some guarantees with the Typewriter Rodeo, including, almost every year, we’ll have a back-to-school poem, a ...

I don’t know why I had the audacity to go and see it, I didn’t dream I’d go through with it . . . but once I stepped into the ...

It never really occurred to me to write a poetry book.” That’s how Terese Mason Pierre, the Toronto writer, editor, and ...

The Princeton University Art Museum in New Jersey has revealed that, after ten years of planning and construction, its new ...

The Marblehead School of Ballet and the North Shore Civic Ballet are sponsoring a poetry contest to mark National Poetry Month. The two schools invite poets to submit their poems about dance and ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

CD Esklison’s new poetry collection examines this connection ... Eskilson references favorites like “Halloween,” “The Witch” and “The Fly,” noting that “each horror movie archives a resistance.” The ...

CD Esklison’s new poetry collection examines this connection ... Eskilson references favorites like “Halloween,” “The Witch” and “The Fly,” noting that “each horror movie archives ...

World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.