Proprietor Melissa DeMotte of Well Read Moose and Washington Poet Laureate Tod Marshall have cooked up something special to celebrate National Poetry Month this month — and our late friend Tom Wobker, ...

New Mexico poet Larry Goodell, 90, keeps performing, publishing and preserving a lifetime of verse with duende press and ...

ROCHESTER — In March, Jean Prokott was named the third poet laureate for the city of Rochester, a role which began in 2012. As an English teacher at Century High School, Prokott speaks about poetry ...

Thomas Couture’s The Romans of the Decadence (1847), from the collection of the Fogg Art Museum. (Photo by Art Media / Print Collector / Getty Images) Frederick Seidel is the poet laureate of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The Bard,” Kevin Willmott’s upcoming drama about enslaved man and celebrated poet George Moses Horton, has rounded out its cast.

Joel Katz stands before a clutch of wordsmiths assembled one recent Thursday night on mismatched folding chairs at the back of Willow Glen Books. There is a wall of cookbooks behind him, titles ...

Gwendolyn Brooks' writing painted a vivid picture of life on Chicago's South Side and the movements for civil rights and Black Power, writes Megan Behrent. JUNE 7 marks the centenary of the birth of ...

“It's my contention that a poem on the page is like a piece of sheet music: It merely represents the instructions for how the music is to be played, how the poem is to be performed. The music is in ...

TORRINGTON — Local writer Patricia Mason-Martin has had one of her poems selected for publication in the upcoming anthology, The Connecticut Bards Poetry Review, according to a statement. The new ...