Patti Smith always had a sharp and powerful voice, but in her own eyes, it took her decades to truly find the confidence to say what she wanted to say.

Its original title in Japanese, Yukite kaeranu (Never to Return), is taken from a poem by Nakahara Chūya (1907–37), who died aged just 30 on October 30, 1937. The previous month, he had ...

There’s also the Chicago Poetry Festival Downtown, the Chicago Electronic Music Conference, a boozy Sunday tea service, a vintage market, a rum festival and more. Expo Chicago returns this weekend to ...

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 ...

And these are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Literary Cleveland, the nonprofit organization and creative writing center working to elevate local writers and their work, is bringing back their Cleveland Poetry Festival.

As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's theme, May Day - read The Laying Hen by Rosamund Taylor below.

About five years later, the poem is at the centre of another kind of reckoning, one that raises questions about artistic ownership, ethics and consent: Aziz alleges lines from his poem were used ...

“Warfare” reconstructs an ill-fated 2006 mission in Iraq from the memories of the Navy SEALs involved. Does this method bring us closer to the reality of combat?

MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - The 2025 Great Lakes Poetry Festival continues in Marquette this week. On Tuesday night, former poet laureate Kimberly Blaeser read several poems from her published books.

A North Salinas High School student has been named the 2025 and 2026 Monterey County Youth Poet Laureate for the Arts Council for Monterey County. She officially begins her term on May 1.

Nearly five years after Aziz's steadfast words first became a war cry of the anti-CAA protesters, the poem is once again in news after Aziz alleged that Anita Dube, the internationally acclaimed ...