Young people are learning life skills like public speaking and memorization through a national poetry competition. We speak ...

A mum read a poem to a judge as she was jailed following her arrest at a Betfred shop. Michaela Parsons was hauled before a ...

Michaela Parsons swallowed 14 wraps of drugs inside the bookies after police spotted her dealing heroin and crack cocaine ...

Burlingame poet Mia Ayumi Malhotra decided that if she was going to write a book on motherhood, it should go beyond skimming ...

“Homeward to the Prairie I Come” comprises 71 photographs from a large collection that Parks himself curated and donated to ...

My dad was not much of a talker. Soft spoken and deferential, he was always looking for opportunities to fade into your ...

Outgoing U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón and her two immediate predecessors, Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith, are condemning ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo, about her book "Washing My Mother's Body" where she explores the complexity of a daughter's grief as she reflects on her mother's ...

The young Black woman wanted her grandmother to see her in the sanctuary and “to run to her Hershey-­sweet brown arms” and receive a “coconut rabbit cake on a jelly-bean platter; every year under the ...

In addition to the ribbon-cutting, the Emily Dickinson Museum will host its annual Poetry Walk through downtown Amherst on ...

Roar + Pour, formerly known as the Wild Wine Walk, starts at 5 p.m. Friday at BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo. The following is a ...

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...