Every spring and fall Doug Murphy organizes a series of poetry readings at the Gig Harbor Library. Murphy is a longtime member of Friends of the Library and a poetry lover “from way back.” He ...

For girls who didn't grow up seeing themselves as the main characters of books, award-winning poet Elizabeth Acevedo wants them to know that their stories are just as important as any other.

Today, we hear from poet Mahogany L. Browne, who is coordinating a Women of the World Poetry Slam running March 9 through the 12th in Brooklyn, New York. This piece is entitled "Black Girl Magic." ...

Friend of Cedarmere president Tom Powell is pictured with a restored waterwheel at a Roslyn Harbor mill poet William Cullen Bryant once owned, a restoration project Powell's nonprofit led.

Laurinda Lind, Sackets Harbor, is an internationally recognized poet. She is the 2018 first-place winner of the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize, and the 2023 Foley Poetry Winner from America Magazine.