"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 ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A ...

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee.

I grew up listening to AM radio in Boston in the 1960s; every day I heard the widest variety of popular songs from three ...

ArtSpace/Lima will present an evening of poetry under the direction of Lima’s Poet Laureate, Laurin Wolf, on Thursday, ...

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 ...

Mary Ann McFadden was inaugurated as the newly chosen poet laureate of Ventura County at a ceremony on Sunday, Jan. 12, at ...

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

New Orleans slam poet, singer, rapper Tarriona “Tank” Ball is ready to bring her art, and her band, the Bangas, to Omaha next week.

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

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