Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

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 ...

Paul Revere was immortalized by Longfellow's poem and became an American icon. William Dawes, the other midnight rider, is ...

Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the Altar and mixed them together. He dashed the mixture on Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and on his sons’ garments… ~ ...

What Abraham was asked to surrender points to a truth modern hearts resist: that fatherhood, like faith, demands total ...

The Whiting Award for Poetry is one of 10 annual literary awards granted by the foundation, which also honor fiction, ...

Siegfried Sassoon’s late-life conversion and poetry offer a moving meditation on faith, suffering and the redemptive light of ...

Some characters got happy endings, while some decidedly did not. But there were enough twists to keep viewers guessing until ...

President Trump faces a clear choice. He can save a staggering number of Ukrainian children — an achievement that may bring him closer to the Nobel Peace Prize he desires. Or he can ignore their ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...