Dallas’ poet laureate Joaquín Zihuatanejo at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) This year, Dallas named Mag Gabbert ...

Born into an elite abolitionist family in Philadelphia, Charlotte Louisa Forten Grimké was a free Black woman who enjoyed the privilege of private tutors and an exclusive education. During the ...

The Lenten rose returns . . . A collection of Peggy Noonan’s best columns, a history of the Bible’s journey across the world, and a consideration of poetry’s purpose and role in education.

“One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her capacious debut collection. That opening sequence orbits around Sarah Baartman, a Khoekhoe South ...

An early love of poetry kicked in after listening to Bob Dylan and reading Wilfred Owen. But there was always the Penguin ...

Mort's collection "Music for the Dead and Resurrected" won the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Her other honors include a 2021 Rome Prize in literature and ...

Poetry by contemporary Southern writers was the topic of USC Aiken’s latest “Aiken in the Alley” lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 6 ...

Saturday will also feature an afternoon-long free Family Fun Day @ Dodge Poetry in Newark'sMilitary Park, a first for the festival. The event will fill various corners of the park with poetry ...

"Southern Voices," edited by Tom Mack and Drew Geyer, is an anthology of "sense of place" poems from Southern writers, including SC's Glenis Redmond, Ed Madden ...

The acclaimed Palestinian poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha left his native Gaza 10 months ago, but he is still very much there—mentally and emotionally, that is. Since fleeing to Cairo ...

It’s fragrant here, these flowers left for dead . . . Bluer than the blue off Bermuda . . . Inspired, I have written a companion poem to the one that Amanda Gorman delivered at the DNC. She ...