The weekly Writers’ Block Poetry Night has some elements you might expect. At a recent show, many poets signed up to read pieces on grief and identity, generating snaps and applause from the audience.

On September 13 the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2016 National Book Award in Poetry, and the 10-title listing celebrates not only a diverse group of American poets, but also ...

This week’s poetry connection poem comes out of the “Honoring Our Ancestors” workshop that Jillian and I facilitated at the ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi’s Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce will host the Mississippi Young Writers Poetry Festival, a culmination of her statewide K-12 poetry-writing initiative and competition My ...

SWAG Writers (The Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Virginia Writers Club) Reading Series continues in April with a reading by poets Susan Facknitz, Stan Galloway, Leona Sevick, Michael ...

One of Lighthouse Writers Workshop‘s goals when it opened its new facility earlier this year was to open up the writing world – literature and its creative pursuit – to more of the general public. “We ...

Kim Roberts wants to talk back to the canon. That’s the point of putting together an anthology of historical poems, she says. As a local literary historian and a poet herself, she’s been thinking ...

Of course, I didn’t listen and tried to partake in everything the conference offered, from the early morning classes to the talent show and the pirate workshops, which often lingered into the wee ...

On Sunday, thousands of writers and artists rallied across the country in defense of freedom of speech and to protest the political discourse of President-elect Donald Trump. Their mission, according ...