The 75-year-old poet, translator, and editor is the 54th recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a prestigious award ...

Nancy Miller Gomez is the county’s new poet laureate for 2025-26, having officially been announced to the position at the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors’ Jan. 28 meeting.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

In his ninth-century poem Ya Sa’eli, Ibn Al Rumi describes some of his favourite foods and how he likes to enjoy them. The ...

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

May this February 14th be filled with love and romance. Share these poems with your soulmate and let them know how much they ...

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

On Wednesday night, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs hosted its third annual spoken word and open ...

Michael Longley, the last survivor of a remarkable triumvirate of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, who was celebrated for the meditative beauty of his compact lyrics, ...

Research shows that AI companions can help lonely individuals, at least in the short term. A 2022 study found that ...

Watermark Art Center and Sundown Records will host a Poetry SLAM at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, at Fozzie's Smokin Bar-B-Q, 114 Third St. NW. "A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets ...

Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.