The arts are often written off as worthless, or certainly not worth the federal funding that they receive. But young poets like me know otherwise.

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

BOSTON (AP) — Before the skaters in their sequins and brightly coloured costumes took the ice at the world figure skating championships on Wednesday night, a choir dressed all in black sang a solemn ...

For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...

Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of ...