These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

Community members are invited to "tell a story, get a poem" with Coeur d'Alene's first poet laureate, Jennifer Passaro, from ...

Baylor junior Elizabeth Silva won the state Poetry Out Loud competition in Franklin, Tn., becoming the first Baylor student ...

While the search for Santa Barbara’s next Poet Laureate is in full swing, I took a little time off to catch the last weekend ...

With the theme of “Sweet Resistance,” this year’s Teen Spoken Word Festival will feature workshops, poetry slam competitions, performances, and a multitude of activities tailored to inspire and engage ...

Celebrating the Voices of Anaheim is a poetry contest scheduled for April 12. Everyone is encouraged to submit a poem for the contest by March 15. Anyone who lives, works, or goes to school in Anaheim ...

The Wayne Theatre hosted the 20th Annual Poetry Out Loud state finals and a Fredericksburg Academy senior will advance to nationals.

Wendy Arimah Berot has gone through some tough days in the past year.But Berot, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning’s director of program operations, found comfort in others, and, ...

Interest in Australian poetry has dipped significantly since ‘The Man from Snowy River’. Why is this? And how can we get it ...