The Kelly Writers House hosted a poetry reading and discussion event with poet Marcella Durandon Wednesday.

When David Harrison originally asked me to write my first column for “Poetry from Daily Life,” I spoke of Harry Bliss’ New Yorker cartoon: he draws a lady introducing her son as a poet. The folks ...

Cecily Parks started writing the poems that would become The Seeds about a decade ago. Now it's finally finished and out in ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — The city of Riviera Beach hosted a free youth summit Saturday in hopes to provide an artistic and creative outlet by writing poetry. The workshop at the Marina Village was open ...

There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets – often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Meanwhile, the Lincoln ...

Fernando Valverde is taking his students on a journey into the past. Valverde talks in rapid-fire Spanish, moving his arms and using his fingers to emphasize a point. His students, seated before him ...

John Ernest, chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, wants to bring poetry to life, so sometimes he’ll start his classes with a dramatic reading of a poem. On more than one ...

Cat Russell, a published author and poet, discovered her passion for writing through NaNoWriMo. Russell finds inspiration for her poetry in everyday observations and keeps a notebook to record ideas.

GENESEE COUNTY, MI – When Jacob Keys, a 17-year-old senior at Carman-Ainsworth High School, saw the “Inspire” mural on the outskirts of downtown Flint, it reminded him of his childhood. The mural ...