This year will feature something new in the “Poetry Share at the Fair” event Aug. 9, in which poets who have submitted work ...

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK. Denise Mina on The ...

She paused, then eyed the cowboy next to her. “You’re up!” Jerry Bell stepped to the stage, clad head-to-toe in denim with a white, curlicued horseshoe moustache. A guitar hung over his shoulder, held ...

The Atlanta Poetry Community will host “The Man. The Me.” on July 30, 2025, at City Winery Atlanta to honor the life and ...

Twelve poets vied last week for Charm City Slam's champion title, a highly regarded position in Baltimore's "mecca" of a slam ...

Marginality, mass death—these are just a few of the reasons why the oeuvre of Essex Hemphill, who died of the virus in 1995, ...

The desire to be a cowboy even reached this reporter. In 1994, Kit Williams rhymed her way through cowboy poetry camp, where ...

Sunday night, the Gene Leahy Mall came alive with music and poetry from around the world as the Nebraska Crossroads Music ...

There’s nothing like travel to open one's eyes to new vistas, experiences and reflections, especially with good company in ...

The well-known lines by Golden Age of Hollywood writer/director Samuel Taylor Coleridge come from his silent film masterpiece ...

Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

These poems take their sincerity as a given: they are rapturous, melancholic, dismayed or angry just as they declare ...