The founder of the Uptown Poetry Slam thought he'd retire to a small town in western Illinois. Instead, he's on stage in Chicago, reciting his poetry and talking about his life.
Elliott Bay Book Company hosted a reading co-sponsored by UW EarthLab and the Washington Sea Grant on Jan. 14 in celebration ...
William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...
Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer on Wednesday amid immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.
The writer and mother of three is as vulnerable as ever in her new poetry book, They Bloom Because of You ...
Maya Angelou’s legacy goes beyond the body of work she shared with the world during her lifetime. Her legacy as one of the greatest writers of all time also embodies the ability she had to hold on to ...
Caroline Kennedy's latest book comes with an agenda: to encourage a return to poetic memorization and recitation that both families and schools once considered routine. In Poems to Learn by Heart, ...
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has appointed award-winning poet and writer Dr. Laura Tohe as the state’s next Poet Laureate.