Almir Agić, a 22-year-old Roma man from Ilijaš, near Sarajevo, fights prejudice with poetry and art, giving a voice to those who are invisible in society. In his poetry collection “Kaktus u polju ...

Poets & Writers announced Monday that Cyrus Cassells is this year’s winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize, which was established in 2007 and has been previously awarded to Joy Harjo, Sonia Sanchez ...

Dea Kulumbegashvili’s sprawling meditation on gynaecological morality, which literal-minded distributors really have held back until TS Eliot’s “cruellest month”, is quite unlike anything ...

The third annual National Baseball Poetry Festival will take place May 2-4, and will feature events at venues including Polar Park, Electric Haze and the JMAC. Worcester's deep connection to baseball ...

My encounter with Spanish-Latin American poetry began entirely by chance. In 1959, I was admitted to the Department of Chinese Language and literature at Peking University (PKU) but was redirected ...

She is the editor, most recently, of the anthology “Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall.” Books of lyric poems work like museums: We enter, we wander, we investigate, we marvel at ...

April is National Poetry Month — a time set aside each year to celebrate the written and spoken word in all its richness. Established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, this national ...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, literary lovers can drop in, grab a comfy chair and listen to one or more of the Dickinson’s 1,789 poems. Refreshments will be served. (8 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Tue.

These poems, along with countless others, serve as beacons of hope and inspiration, reminding us that we all have a role to play in creating a sustainable future. By embracing the messages ...

A.F. Moritz has been awarded the second annual Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. Moritz was awarded the prize for his 22nd collection of poetry, Great Silent Ballad, published in 2024 by House of ...

Poems have been read out and attached to newly planted trees in honour of writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah. The 65 readings were carried out in Burbury Park in Birmingham on Saturday, following ...

Could you tell me about yourself and your work as a poet? I have been publishing poetry professionally since 2009, on and off. I primarily do genre poetry, which is poetry that falls sort of in ...