Words and stories have a powerful effect for people, Nick Northrup said. That was part of the reason it was impressive to see southwest Minnesota youth sharing their writing, he said. “That you are ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” taught in classrooms across the United States for over a ...

TRUNK” is an interactive one-man show that narrates the trials of a young artist circumnavigating his imminent demise.

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

A State College-based writer was one of ten emerging writers to win the prestigious Whiting Award this year. Samuel Kọ́láwọlé, an assistant professor of English and African Studies at Penn State, won ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

The centerpiece at Wednesday night’s dinner in Brooklyn had all the fixings of a traditional seder plate: fresh leaves of ...

Libraries, schools and cultural organizations around Massachusetts and the country celebrate April as National Poetry Month.

Ten emerging writers, from an author of speculative fiction to a poet rooted in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, have ...

What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...