At one time or another, when face-to-face with a poem, most everyone has been perplexed. The experience of reading a poem itself is as likely to turn us off, intellectually or emotionally, as it is to ...

The intricacies of poetry can be quite remarkable. Carefully crafted form, wording, and symbolism alone are hard to capture ...

Her poetry is grounded in both sensuality and spirituality. The ability to celebrate life’s joys and sorrows while seeing the ...

On Nov. 3, Tina Chang, Brooklyn’s first female Poet Laureate, gave a Morris Gray Poetry Reading at the Barker Center.

The National Book Foundation announced on Thursday the winner of the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize, its annual social-impact-through-literature award. Each year the foundation honors one ...

Megan Grumbling is a poet and writer who lives in Portland. Deep Water: Maine Poems is produced in collaboration with the ...

Back in the day, everyone was convinced that if you played rock albums backwards you would hear Satanic messages, and then a bunch of idiots freaked out because "Teh Beatles is subliminally trying to ...

Local poet Ellen Bass spoke from the lectern as more than 500 people filled the Merrill Cultural Center at UC Santa Cruz last ...

June Neas Bryer-Bass patiently sat on her mother Sally Neas’s lap as June’s grandmother (and Sally’s mother-in-law) Ellen ...

Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather’s house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Over the river, and through the wood— Oh, how the ...