Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Explore the powerful poetry of former New America Fellows Sarah Kay and Clint Smith, reflecting on culture and the transformative power of words.

I assumed I would become a school teacher, but poetry was the wild card that popped ... “In more recent days, I consider myself an artist whose foundation is spiritual, not necessarily religious ...

To right away avoid being depressing, and because beginnings are important, I’ll begin with a poem by the Roman poet Catullus ... I do not achieve any John Cage-like liberation from the shackles of my ...

Some songwriters started writing poetry before segueing into song ... and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s elegy on the death of John Keats, “Adonais,” inspired the B-side track of the same name.

The shortlist for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2025 has been announced today ... “As always it is a privilege for myself and fellow judges Tom Walker and Una Mannion to read ...

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MPR News host Angela Davis talks about the power of poetry with Junauda Petrus, the newly appointed Poet Laureate for the city of Minneapolis. She says poetry is “soul medicine” that can unite ...

Buy tickets here. Enter the ECA’s annual WE SPEAK Youth Poetry Competition The deadline to submit is Monday, March 10 Edmonds Center for the Arts invites youth in the Puget Sound to submit ...

Lucasta Miller’s devotion to Keats is everywhere apparent in this interesting yet infuriating book, written to mark the 2021 bicentenary of the poet’s death. Keats begins with a consideration of ‘On ...