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

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 ...

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

Solving Sacramento When Andru Defeye became Sacramento’s Poet Laureate in February 2020, he hadn’t yet heard of Sacramento ...

Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, ...

Introduced by Rosa Alcalá, the Woodberry Poetry Room’s T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading spotlighted Cecilia Vicuña’s creative work.

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 ...

On Oct. 15, Daisy Atterbury ’10, lecturer of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of New Mexico, released a ...

But once I left the Army, I had too much free time to think ... She suggested I write a poem. Poetry, she said, would allow me to explore the painful subjects I'd been avoiding and ask questions ...

The nominees for the 67th Grammy Awards were revealed Friday morning, and the list is packed with big names. Beyoncé tops 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.

Corowa-based acclaimed poet and playwright, Luke Icarus Simon ... In September 1990 headlines in the Free Press informed the community that Corowa had won a "Giant Incinerator". By December of the ...