Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Aurélia Durand / For The Times) In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d ...

Frederick Seidel’s 19th book, “So What,” is filled with politics, disease, luxury and provocation. At almost 90, he’s one of our best contemporary poets. By Daisy Fried Daisy Fried is the author of ...

To judge from outward appearances, one might imagine that poetry occupies a place of unprecedented importance, at least in America. There are now more poets writing here than there have ever been — ...

Pennsylvania is home to cities, farmlands, small towns, rivers, coal mines and even a Great Lake coastline. In all of those places, there are stories. Two Pennsylvania professors have gathered some of ...

For years George Guida has been hosting poetry readings in Dansville, quietly passing the mic to some of the best poets in ...

Roll over Apollinaire or Baudelaire with your connection to the Louvre. A new map is being drawn, and 100 contemporary world poets are taking over. However, the qualifier ‘world’ in the book’s ...