Griffiths says she won't let pain be "the engine that drives the ship." Justin Chang reviews Sound of Falling. Hudes' novel ...

Ashley M. Jones, an alumna of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of English, was recently appointed to serve as the next Poet Laureate of Alabama. She holds an MFA from Florida ...

On the day Griffiths married author Salman Rushdie, her longtime best friend died unexpectedly. Eleven months later, Rushdie ...

When its doors opened in 1966, The Poetry Project was intended to inspire cross-generational conversations between writers in a space that felt safe and artistically generative during a time of social ...

Simone White doing a guerrilla reading at the Museum of Modern Art (all photos © Lawrence Schwartzwald, used with permission; no reproduction without express ...

While wrapping up his interview with Michael Silverblatt, U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin wondered — why can’t interviewers simply read previous interviews to glean answers to repeated questions?

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A local restaurant is looking forward to their first poetry night featuring an award winning poet and it’s an event you don’t want to miss. KB Cafe Owner Katherine Bernard and ...

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She wrote poetry in Parañaque. She wrote poetry in San Diego. She wrote in her youth and adulthood. She writes now, at 82. In fact, she is probably the reason I have not been able to set a pen down ...

The Redmond City Council has approved Nancy Mburu as Redmond’s new poet laureate for 2026-27. Mburu is the city’s ninth since the program was established in 2008, with the first poet laureate named in ...