Michael Castro, a founder of the local River Styx poetry publication and organization, became St. Louis’ Poet Laureate on January 1, 2014. Michael Castro, a founder of the local River Styx poetry ...

Michael Longley at the Corrymeela Peace Center in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, in July 2012. (Wikimedia Commons) The death of the poet Michael Longley on Jan. 22, 2025, at the age of 85 did not ...

Michael Castro was an essential presence on St. Louis’ creative poetry scene when I discovered it circa 1988. I remember his name being spoken in the raspy, enthusiastic voice of Bob Putnam, then ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Longley resisted the temptation ‘to write the poem of the latest [terrorist] atrocity. We knew there was no point in versifying ...

President of Ireland and occasional poet, Michael D Higgins has marked his impending departure from the Áras with yet another album of poetry. The spoken word album, called ‘Against All Certainties’ ...

Louisiana State University Press, 62 pp. Tar Heel poet Michael Chitwood’s subjects are sown in the South, but we can find these people and places anywhere in small-town America. In his world, the men ...

Poetry has the power to speak to the soul. With his new book of poems – inspired by Judaism – Michael Milgraum does exactly that. “To Seek a Larger Spirit: Reflections of a Jewish Psychologist” ...

Wynn, a Corvallis resident who practices neurology in Salem, was seeing a patient, “a delightful woman with a delightful husband,” who was describing what she thought was a relatively minor problem.