What did poetry mean to the ancient Chinese? Confucius (551-479 BC) offered an answer. "Poetry can inspire the mind, offer ...

Springfield writer Rex Ybañez shares the story behind a poem he wrote that blends culture, Spam, breakfast, jazz and a few other ingredients.

Michelle Latvala’s debut poetry collection, Between Latitudes, explores the meaning of home, ancestry and landscape across a ...

A Venezuelan poet who came to Chicago on a student visa over a decade ago is left in an uncomfortable state of limbo due a ...

Siobhán Flynn (64) is a poet from Dublin whose work has been placed or shortlisted in numerous competitions in Ireland and ...

The free Native American Arts Festival Week runs June 16-20 and will feature speakers, a film screening, music and more.

My journey as a poet began in 2015, fresh out of high school, when I discovered the transformative power of words—how they ...

With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet ...

Allegorical forest creatures meet ethnographic archives in Rosana Paulino’s art — influential in Brazil, and now on view in ...

Some hacks just tickle the brain in a very particular way. They’re, for a change, not overly engineered; they’re just elegant ...