Seattle inaugurated its fifth-ever Civic Poet, Dujie Tahat, in a ceremony in the City Council Chambers. Hosted by the Office ...

The late Ernie Harwell's contributions to the Detroit Tigers are truly immeasurable. In honor of his legacy, I have crafted a ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Dear Editor, My name is Susan Farrell Suhr, I am a writer and a poet and I write with the Sea Country writers group. I used ...

For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...

matthews — who prefers to write his name in lowercase because he believes his name is insignificant compared to the message he has to give — doesn’t just read his poems; he treats them like theatrical ...

In her new book, "I Am Maria," the child of the Kennedy family, broadcast journalist, wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and – after the end of her marriage – a woman in search of herself offers an ...

In fact, I wrote a stupid poem about it in first grade and it found its way to the internet in 1998 or soon after. Mary Oliver I am not. To help me get through my Zooms prepping for the next day ...