Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January ...

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The subject line of the email said, "What if..." Editor Amos Bridges explains how a weekly column about poetry found a place ...

Lima Poet Laureate Laurin Wolf will host “Good Poetry for Hard Times” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23 at ArtSpace/Lima, 65 ...

The acclaimed poet talks inspiration, taking poetry to the people, and touring with singer-songwriter Aimee Mann ahead of his ...

Nila, the 19-year-old protagonist of Aria Aber’s debut novel, Good Girl, will be eminently recognizable to readers of ...

Back after a 16-year-long gap, poet extraordinaire Jeet Thayil’s new collection of poems mirrors the times we live in ...

An Evening in Paradise,” a benefit concert featuring Season 21 “American Idol” Champion Iam Tongi at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in ...

Good grief is like civil-rights icon John Lewis’s concept of good trouble: It’s loving and rebellious but it’s got its own ...

The world is filled with humor, inspiration and kindness. Here are seven stories to make you smile from Essex County, New ...

"As a member of the media and thus, according to the new president, an enemy of the people, I should have something to say about all this," writes columnist Stephen Kessler. "But sometimes the beast ...

Here’s hoping next week won’t have to strike that same balance. Kwame Alexander went on The Late Show and read his late mentor Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Still Life With Apron.” The story he told of how ...