Why should today’s readers check out an 1838 book about an American man’s increasingly bizarre and terrifying journey to the South Pole? Nathan Wolff and Joseph Rezek, local academics who contributed ...

An artificial battle with death itself. Schools closed in quarantine, computers proving poor substitutes. A generation of students handed unprecedented learning hurdles. Then came the fire, matches ...

Longtime advocate Jorge Antonio Renaud lyricizes the grit of prison life in his first published collection of poems, The Restlessness of Bound Wrists.

The following poem is being published at the request of its author, Nicole Pepper, and was written in celebration of the Providence Bay Sunset Series. A slew of spectators, chairs and blankets ...

Ballad of the Dulong River and Bronze Cowrie Containers, a new poetry collection, is launched in Beijing. [Photo provided to ...

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O n July 14, beloved spoken-word poet Andrea Gibson died of cancer at their home in Colorado at age 49. A powerful voice in queer letters, Gibson innately understood poetry to be ...

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A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political ...

One of my most beloved mentors, heroes, and teachers is currently in hospice. At 96 years old, Joanna Macy is approaching the ...

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly bushes he often passes.