Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

DAZAIFU, Fukuoka Prefecture--Braving wintery cold weather, people dressed in exquisite period costumes recited poems at the Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine here on March 3. Thirteen participants re ...

Around this time every year, Toyo University announces the results of its annual poetry contest called “Gendai Gakusei Hyakunin Isshu” (One hundred tanka poems by contemporary students).

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 ...

March 18, 2025 • Dick Warwick reads a poem by Eavan Boland ...