Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – National Poetry Day, observed each year in October, serves as a reminder of poetry’s enduring power to stir emotions, spark imagination, and capture human experience in just a ...

My guest today is Barbara Loots (rhymes with Goats), who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Barbara is another poet who found her calling early and was writing poems by 3rd grade. She says she even made ...

Austin's first-ever Poet Laureate Zell Miller III shares an original poem on Austin InSight. Austin has crowned the city’s first-ever Poet Laureate. Theater artist and spoken word poet Zell Miller III ...

In collaboration with Poets Against Racism & Hate USA, Indiana Poet Laureate Curtis L. Crisler will be presenting a pop-up Indiana Chitlin Circuit poetry reading event from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 13 from ...

To adapt Russell Jacoby's definition of contemporary academic renown from The Last Intellectuals, a "famous" poet now means someone famous only to other poets. But there are enough poets to make that ...

“Poetry Live!” is not just named as such — event co-host and Jones lecturer Hieu Minh Nguyen invited the audience to engage “not as readers or as listeners, but as active participants in poetry,” and ...

Bring your comfiest pj's and favorite poems to Photon Poetry's unique open mic night where you can perform others' work amid ...

In celebration of Women’s History Month, poet and publisher Diane Lockward will present “GIRL TALK: A Poetry Reading” on Saturday, March 29 at 1 p.m. at the West Caldwell Public Library. The free ...

“What an image,” an audience member whispered, looking at a photo displayed behind poet Claudia Rankine — it depicted a couch tied in a knot. The photo was part of a rotating slideshow of artfully ...