To many, William Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist of all time. His works—at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 narrative poems—capture the range of human emotion and conflict and have ...

In honoring National Poetry Month, Loyola staff and students reckon with the benefits and conflicts of poetry reading in ...

Poet Laureate of Kansas, professor and 2025 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum Traci Brimhall will be the featured ...

Joann Pagano Weber stands in front a shop window on Main Street in Saugerties displaying portaits of local people that she created for National Poetry Month. (Photo by Lauren Thomas) Hey, how’s your ...

"That little act of kindness by this lovely stranger was more meaningful to me than I could ever articulate," Autumn Meadows ...

Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s ...

Author, poet, and teacher Michael Prior read poems from his most recent award-winning book “Burning Province” at the Ulrich ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

"Someone said, that sometimes right in the middle of an ordinary life you get a fairy tale. The day I met him I got mine. He was funny ... best known for his song "Poetry in Motion," which ...

“Poetry is the art of compression, of saying in a few well-chosen words, enhanced with rhythm and musicality of language what might take many more words to express — far less memorably — in prose,” ...

Off Hours, your free weekly newsletter from the Des Moines Register, showcases all things fun you can do in central Iowa. Friday night: Two days of poetry come to Des Moines when Poetry Palooza ...