Editor’s note: This week, for National Poetry Month, we’re featuring 37 up-and-coming black poets—including one today who is much more well-known but in a different field—who we expect do amazing work ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

Stan Brakhage loved poetry and befriended poets but considered himself a failed poet. Many experts disagreed. He was, they said, a consummate poet—one who spoke in the language of film and measured ...

Where: South Hill Public Library, 3324 S. Perry St. Cost: Free and open to the public For Stephen Pitters, it’s all about evolution. In 1985, he started the Spokane Open Poetry Association. When that ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Michael Basinski, the poet, zips around in his office chair on wheels, punctuating his lines with each slide of the chair forward, sideways, down and back again, the way a dancer ...

Show on exhibit at Create Art & Tea through end of month Visual art, poetry and augmented reality collide in a new exhibit at Create Art & Tea. The exhibit, “Voices Inside My Head” features paintings ...

This graphic image was created on Canva software. In honor of National Poetry Month, the Parkersburg Art Center will hold its second annual Poetry and Art event in the Main Gallery at 6 p.m. Saturday.

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential Black poets in America. A graduate of Howard University, he was ...

It is not often that the name of Enid Blyton, the bestselling children’s author, is mentioned in the same breath or the same sentence as literary giants, such as Homer, Virgil or Dante. The reason for ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – National Poetry Day, observed each year in October, serves as a reminder of poetry’s enduring power to stir emotions, spark imagination, and capture human experience in just a ...