When Eduardo Martínez-Leyva first started writing poetry for his MFA thesis, he didn’t realize it would be years before he ...

Longtime LAist correspondent, Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, has reported on local stories for decades, traveling and meeting people ...

No NamesBy Greg HewettCoffee House PressA poet writing prose about music? Greg Hewett knew he was taking on a challenge.

Donald Niedekker’s “Strange and Perfect Account From the Permafrost” offers an ambitious view of human history and is full of ...

In 'Requiem,' her fifth book, Virginia Konchan takes the sacred seriously. She’s jocular with her subjects, including God, ...

Here's how to help the poemless: go to the poetry shelves in the children’s section of your local library. Grab a book by ...

Need to solve a challenging problem? Read or write some poetry! Compelling research demonstrates that poetry can accelerate ...

Derek Sheffield sat down with The Seattle Times to talk about the role of poet laureate, his love of language and what he’s ...

The New Hyde Park-based writer has penned approximately 1,500 poems, he said, writing his first when he was just 8 years old.

In a world flooded with cheap facsimiles of human art, will we still be able to rely on our own faculties for creation, or ...

A Fermanagh poet has been selected from writers across the world to earn a place at the prestigious Seamus Heaney Poetry ...

Marilyn Narey’s main challenge in preparing her entry for Pennsylvania’s “Art of the State” contest was that she could only ...