As trees across campus shed the last of their autumn leaves, a new species of tree blossomed in the Department of World ...

Patricia Smith, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has received a National Book Award, the 2025 award for poetry, for “The Intentions of Thunder: New and ...

Poetry season is just getting started across the state. Poetry Out Loud is a nationwide competition for high school students, administered by the local arts councils in California. Since 2016, the ...

Poetry is not a practical thing. It's inefficient. It leaves too much space on the page. Its lines are uneven and unpredictable. Its edges are sharp as shards of glass, and what are shards of glass ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Lewisburg Area Schools will once again be infused with a new era of creative writing enlightenment, and Bucknell University students are at the forefront of it. Sixteen Bucknell students enrolled in a ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges, droughts and ...

Fernando Valverde is taking his students on a journey into the past. Valverde talks in rapid-fire Spanish, moving his arms and using his fingers to emphasize a point. His students, seated before him ...

WHO: Texas’s 2024 poet laureate, Amanda Johnston. WHAT: The Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for Johnston’s project, Praisesong for the People: Poems Celebrating the Heart and Soul of ...

for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith but the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait ...