Poet Leslie Reese works with second graders at Swift Elementary School through the "Hands on Stanzas" virtual program. Credit: B. Metzger Sampson Just one week after Chicago Public Schools (CPS) went ...

KENT, Ohio – Nearly a decade ago, Valora Renicker, an associate professor of visual communication design at Kent State University, invited her colleague David Hassler, director of Kent State’s Wick ...

Stay put in St Andrews long enough, it has been said, and you will hear all the top poets in the world. It is a tribute to the determination and vision of the organisers of the StAnza Poetry Festival ...

This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. NO MAN is an island, as John Donne ...

Baseball, its late commissioner Bart Giamatti once observed, is designed to break one’s heart. Indeed, the game’s most iconic poem recounts not the home team’s triumphant victory or the exhilaration ...

Lord Byron (1788–1824) gave five different poems the title “Stanzas for Music” — simply as a generic name by which he meant either that he heard the rhythm of a melody while he wrote the poems, or ...

O, yes, we honor Marianne Moore’s take on poetry--”there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle”--and, yes, we, too, dislike the gimmicky naming of months. But April is National Poetry ...

American poet and novelist, Dan Fante, wrote of first discovering Van Gogh, in his poem 7-17-93. A moment captured in time, an externalization of the internal, something abstract and vague. One can ...

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Amos Bridges, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. I’m especially happy to hear from Amos because he’s the editor-in-chief for the Springfield ...