Read Across America Week, writers and book groups scheduled to meet from the beach to Olympia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 3—Ariana Pimentel adroitly blended English and Spanish, as well as history with contemporary immigration, and her resulting ...

April is National Poetry Month, and this year it's taking on some new resonance, with most of the world stuck indoors, anxious for the future and antsy about the present. Poems can be a lot of things ...

A study in the journal Scientific Reports suggests readers like AI-generated poems more than those written by poets like Sylvia Plath and T.S. Eliot. Nonexpert readers of poems from William ...

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...

Love is complicated. Sasha Debevec-McKenney, who wrote the poem above in the February issue, loves Madison — even though it lets her down sometimes. She loves working in restaurants (Morris Ramen, ...

There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets – often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Meanwhile, the Lincoln ...

American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington DC on January 20, 2021. PATRICK SEMANSKY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images The Dutch ...

Dec. 3—Ariana Pimentel adroitly blended English and Spanish, as well as history with contemporary immigration, and her resulting poem was named a state winner for Young Georgia Authors. "I was ...