Taylor Swift is a social phenomenon, a self-made master-piece of PR manipulation, the poet laureate of teenage girls everywhere.

Sleaford Library is hosting a National Poetry Day celebration on Thursday, October 2. The event is free, and the theme for the year is "play". Running from from 2.30pm to 4.30pm it will feature ...

Tribute to Andrea Gibson: 7 p.m., Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Colorado’s acclaimed poet laureate and spoken word icon Andrea Gibson, long celebrated for their fearless ...

American writer Gore Vidal, who loved a literary feud - Justin Sutcliffe CS Lewis never liked John Betjeman. The author of the Chronicles of Narnia happened to be the younger man’s tutor at Oxford in ...

Mimi German is an American poet, installation artist, peace activist, and author of five poetry collections, including her most recent translated work, WAR POEMS, Israel-Gaza/The First 100 Days of ...

In the book Priest explores the history of broken treaties, battles over fishing rights, and struggles with cultural erasure that compose the bedrock of the modern Coast Salish native experience.

Former Kentucky Poet Laureate and award-winning author Crystal Wilkinson will visit NKU’s campus on Tuesday for a free, public reading and dialogue in the Eva G. Farris Reading Room at Steely Library.

No one wields a well-turned insult like a professional writer. As there’s nothing more fun than watching purveyors of high literature descend to low name-calling, here we look back at the 21 best ...

Celebrating Missouri’s 7th Poet Laureate David Harrison David Harrison’s term as Missouri’s 7th Poet Laureate ends on Tuesday, September 30. To celebrate the pleasure he’s ...

“The urge to be a maker will find a way, no matter what the context is,” Eau Claire native Nicholas Gulig, former Wisconsin State Poet Laureate, said of his hometown’s ever-evolving arts scene. On ...

Almost two years and 100 columns after it began, Poetry from Daily Life is concluding. Missouri Poet Laureate David Harrison offers thanks.

What do zinnias, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Hayden have in common? More than you’d think — and it’s helping me make sense of 2025.