The first to fill that position, administered by the Austin Public Library for a two-year term, is veteran theater artist and spoken-word poet Zell Miller III. "My responsibilitie ...

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

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Every year on March 21 the world comes together to celebrate World Poetry Day. A day for the beauty, the emotions, and the ...

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If Lena looks familiar to you, it's because she is incredibly famous within her own right as ... impression on each other as the former posted their meeting on Instagram. Sharing a selfie together ...

Both students said an appreciation of poetry is important for their generation. Competing in Poetry Out Loud helped them deepen their understanding of how poetry becomes relevant as they get older.

Using tone, gestures and inflection, students brought poetry selections to life during the Southwest Missouri Regional Competition of Poetry Out Loud. It was a competition where every single word ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...