Ashley Moyo wrote her first poem at age 9 for a school assignment about glasses. She continued using poetry throughout her education, including as a Model United Nations member in high school, when ...

Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Vince Maranto is waiting. He has been waiting since 1969. For more than half a century, he has been wondering … questioning ...

Renowned writer and North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green is visiting Tyrrell County later this month for two days ...

In the late 1970s, the actor Jeff Bridges and a band of his old high school friends recorded a hazy mix of tunes. Nearly 50 years later, he has released them on his new album "Slow Magic: 1977-1978." ...

Poet Laureate of Alameda Kimi Sugioka shares two poems titled 'Alameda in the Time of the Great Turning' and 'Pelicans of Alameda.' The post The Post Celebrates Poetry Month with Kimi Sugioka appeared ...

For National Poetry Month, we talk with Richard Blanco, whose “One Today” poem was read at Barack Obama’s second inauguration ...

There are some guarantees with the Typewriter Rodeo, including, almost every year, we’ll have a back-to-school poem, a ...