“Narrating the Saints: Paulinus of Nola and the Beginning of Verse Hagiography.” Michael Roberts, Robert Rich Professor Emeritus Wesleyan University “Prof. Roberts will explore the Natalicia (Birthday ...

On Jan. 17 William Stafford would have been 96 years old. His son, Kim, celebrated by attending a Stafford birthday event and leading a writing workshop. Kim Stafford started by using Garrison Keillor ...

Sports legends: They're just like us in that they're not very good at writing poems! Actually, retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre's birthday poem to NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. is pretty good: ...

Poet Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday is Friday, May 31, and there are several ways that locals might choose to celebrate. Of course, they can pull a volume of Whitman off the shelf and turn to a poem ...

Get ready to dive into the world of poetry like never before. The Robert Frost Society, in collaboration with Library Foundation San Diego, has announced an event set to engage the San Diego literary ...

Literary lovers will embrace the ghost of Emily Dickinson at a 20th annual birthday celebration in her honor at Lone Star College-Montgomery on Thursday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m., in the Health Science ...

Everyone has a birthday which they meet with varying levels of joy and ambivalence each year. Birthday Poems, edited by Jason Shinder (Tales from the Couch: Writers on Therapy), underscores this fact ...