Famed for decadent desserts and viral souffle pancakes, Champagne Poetry’s Hawthorne Boulevard location has been an ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A car-free pedestrian plaza is coming to Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard and 37th Avenue this summer across from the McMenamins Bagdad Theater. According to the Sunnyside ...

A customer jumped into action when he saw another man choking on his Sunday dinner at the Toby Carvery. Garry Thomason, 43, was having lunch at the restaurant at Arrowe Park when he noticed the ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Anyone heading to the Bagdad Theater or the nearby Powell’s Books this summer will find something new on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard — a pedestrian plaza, taking up a side street off of ...

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.

The man who died in Whangārei following an alleged homicide over the weekend has been named Toby Mike Adams, of Whangārei. He was 62 years old. A police spokeswoman said the 53-year-old man ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

The British sunk their claws into Hong Kong in stages. In 1842 they colonised Hong Kong island; 1860 saw the seizure of the Kowloon peninsula, and in 1898, the British took out a 99-year lease on ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...