Poetry

Poetry by Linda Gregerson: “Pity the part // we think we do on purpose.”

As 77Art gears up for its first Infinite Lit spoken-poetry event Saturday night at the B&G Gallery, the Facebook event promises a great night for those who love ...

How do people deal with traumas and painful memories? For Gregory Orr, one of our most esteemed lyric poets, the answer is to embrace language and to grow ...

After a promising start as a published poet in the 1950s, Marie Ponsot put her career aside. She was a single mother in New York City, with seven children to ...

Someone discovered a scrap of verse recently by the First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon, sent in a letter in 1925 to a young man he'd fallen in love with, the ...

The poet discusses his work in an interview co-produced with The Adroit Journal.

Eliza Beth Whittington wears a lot of hats: queer activist, painter, urban farmer, parent, singer-songwriter, event organizer…and published poet. Raised on the ...

"The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write". How do people deal with traumas and painful memories? For Gregory Orr, one of our most esteemed lyric poets, the ...

Justin Bieber honored the anniversary of his engagement to wife Hailey Baldwin with an Instagrammed picture of the two of them captioned, “My lips get jealous ...

Campbell McGrath joins Kevin Young to discuss “Realism,” by Czeslaw Milosz, and his own poem “The Human Heart.” McGrath has published several poetry ...

As I stare at Medicare eligibility across the inch of months instead of the abyss of decades, I think not of promotions missed or the overtime not worked, but of ...

It's easy to be intimidated by poetry. Often it withholds as much as it gives, leaves obscure as much as it reveals. And there is so much of it. So many different ...

Just a year after Jerry Beck, the founder of Fitchburg's Revolving Museum, set off to break the world record for the largest paper airplane, he is back with a new ...

Mollie Tibbetts' name has been the subject of countless Facebook posts, news articles and posters. A host of words have been spoken and written about her ...

For the sixth installment in our ongoing series about local podcasts, we talk to the poets of Versify.

Luke Bryan's birthday featured quite the sweet and hilarious poem thanks to his wife, Caroline Boyer, — get the details and learn more!

When Blade Runner came out in 1982, it sat at the center of a new genre: “Future Noir.” Ridley Scott established a world so similar and yet so foreign to our own ...

Common is on tour to promote his new album and book.

Not only can poetry foster a love of language, it can also help create tolerance for cultures that have been erased throughout history. Joy Harjo, a member of the ...

We've gotta admit, Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau still have us scratching our heads over their recent engagement, but if...

Hunter Noack grew up in Sunriver cherishing both classical music and outdoor Oregon. His mother, Lori Noack, directed the Sun.

Singer-songwriter Paul Simon's latest honour has come from the Poetry Society of America. The veteran performer was celebrated during a dinner benefit at the ...

The album, Ode to Joy, is a defiantly hopeful collection of songs for dark days.

The young Leonard Cohen met Marianne Ihlen on the Greek island of Hydra, and they began a doomed affair in paradise. Fledgling film-maker Nick Broomfield ...

Street Roots vendor Randy Humphreys does not mince words. “The cycle ends with me,” said Randy, whose family has a history of abuse. Sent by his family to ...

WARRENSBURG — At first blush, life for Pat Shannon Leonard seems a forever heavenly day spent sipping tea in the perennial shade of huge ancient trees in ...

Jerry Foxhoven, the former director of the state's Department of Human Services, was removed days after he sent an email celebrating the rapper to 4300 ...

LIVING on the Isle of Wight proved the perfect inspiration for a new poetry book.

Until his family migrated to the US when he was 16, the Ukrainian-born poet lived without sound. He discusses his family's persecution and his first collection in ...

Poet, writer and musician Joy Harjo — a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation — often draws on Native American stories, languages and myths. But she says ...

Drew Poet's life was idyllic ... until a relentless cancer entered his body and unleashed the courage that inspired everyone who knew him.

Prairie Lights presented an international reading on July 18 to showcase not just writers from all around the globe but also the University of Iowa International ...

Nick Broomfield's remarkable documentary explores the love between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen.

The author and Just a Minute star is encouraging pupils to recite poetry by heart with care home residents without hesitation, repetition or deviation.

"Roses are red, violets are pleasant, you have everything ... so you get no present!" wife Caroline joked.

The alarm blares into the still night, pulling me out of the dream world into the 2am stillness. Shuffling into my starlight-illuminated kitchen, I fill up the coffee ...

Larry Tracy wrote poems to his wife for 61 years, the most important one after she died.

The city's newest book festival, to be held at the Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles arts complex, will host four panels on July 20 and 21 as part of its programming, ...

Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails are trying to bring art back to San Francisco. Their film, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, is a love song to the old.

“You can never publish my love,” Rogue Wave chants, in the song that the title of this series riffs on. Maybe that's true, and we can never quite account for our ...

Dennis Ford's eclectic Rydal garden draws visitors every year as part of the Daffodils at Rydal festival.

In his new book, Blood Fire Vapor Smoke, author Shann Ray takes readers into the depths of human depravity with vivid, brutal scenes from the...

Akron, Ohio As part of Art x Love's @PLAY project, two murals featuring notable Akronites now adorn the brick walls of the Maple...

Two and a half years ago, feeling existentially adrift about the future of the planet, I sent a letter to Wendell Berry, hoping he might have answers. Berry has ...

Alice Walker, famed author and activist, returned to Eatonton last weekend for a hometown celebration that brought community and visitors together by a ...

Documentarian Nick Broomfield has tackled some beguiling and controversial subjects during his prolific career, be it Tinseltown escort-turned-entrepreneur ...

These members of the U.S. Women's National Team are champions and readers. Find out how books influenced Rose Lavelle, Megan Rapinoe, and more.

This past Saturday, hundreds of Alice Walker devotees descended upon her hometown of Eatonton, Georgia to celebrate the author's seventy-fifth turn around ...

KEIGHLEY poet Bernie-the-Bolt has launched a monthly spoken word poetry night in Haworth.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Leave the kids at home, "Terminator: Dark Fate" is getting an R-rating. Director Tim Miller tells the audience at San Diego Comic-Con that ...

While capturing uniquely "Hook 'em" personalities, the coverage will also deconstruct what happens on the field and what it means.

Charles Ghigna (pronounced “Geen-ya,” with a hard g), better known as the poet “Father Goose,” happily climbs the stairs to his wood-paneled office, which he ...

On the evening of July 15, Prairie Lights hosted a reading to memorialize the late poet James Tate, who died in 2015 — a graduate of the Iowa Writers' ...

In the past decade, dual-language school programs in Dallas, Texas, have spiked as more people embrace bilingual education. This summer, Lauren Elliott '20 ...

Former Paradise resident John Wilson (@jwilson1812), who edited Books and Culture for 21 years, calls poet-novelist Marly Youmans “the best-kept secret ...

Where has Denice Frohman been all our lives? Writing words, of course.

A Supermarket in California; What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache ...

"That was the thing about Karl , he was and is love and light, not darkness and demons."

You may belong to L.A.'s great brotherhood of taco eaters huddled around trucks late at night. You munch still-muddy radishes to sweeten your breath,

By Megan Bianco The summer of classic rock-themed movies continues, this time with another documentary. Two months ago, we got to watch the 1960s pop ...

Valerie Dewey and then fiance Arnold kept their love alive using letters when they were divided by war.

Sculpture by Carmen Herrera, a retooled Belle & Sebastian and Leonard Cohen's real Marianne.

Mlungisi feels inspired to impact positively on society and on his peers by using poetry as a tool.

30 years ago, Dead Poets Society became a powerful presence in cinemas across the globe - and it remains one of Robin Williams' most iconic roles.

Pam Grout is the author of books, screenplays, a soap opera, magazine articles, and blogs. I first met her when I read her book "Living Big." It came from her own ...

Some poets use language to reveal. Others use language to conceal. Arundhathi Subramaniam seems to do more of the latter.

Ada and the Engine at the Artistic Home is a magical play about poetry and technology, tinged with tragedy. Ada Byron Lovelace was the daughter of the famous ...

Kim Rose Korkan, 62, passed away at home on Tuesday, July 9, surrounded by loved ones. For the past 12 years, she had been dealing with an aggressive ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The star-laden movie version of hit stage musical "Cats" released its first trailer on Thursday, but first impressions were far from ...

'I ain't a poet and I know it. But this chalk was invested to prevent me being arrested'

Loving America -- We Americans who join the four congresswomen in calling ourselves progressives love our country fully as much as the Trump supporters.

In this lovely little book, the author interlaces brief, vivid celebrations of the natural world with stories of her family and upbringing in Alabama. She finds the ...

Masego Nkuna puts pen to paper and releases first poetry book.

A POEM written by talented Greenfield actress and budding author Emma Sykes was chosen to highlight an international day of recognition against ...

Primera Fila, one of Spain's top theatre magazines, has released a video, called 'Love Goes Never Alone.' The video-poem brings together some of the most ...

A Myanmar love poem will remain on the national curriculum after the government's plans to scrap it over fears it promoted smoking sparked widespread public ...

You don't even have to see the new Lion King to discern what went wrong. The soundtrack, featuring songs both old and new by Beyoncé, Donald Glover, and ...

Number 40 The Pines is a three-bed, 100sq m home in Wicklow in turnkey condition.

See Cynthia Good's unique home, blending simplicity with color and femininity and masculinity.

From Colette to The Favourite, Vita and Virginia to Gentleman Jack: why are filmmakers turning to the past to explore relationships between women?

Growing up in northern Uganda, I managed to piece together an education by winning one scholarship after another. But I will somehow have to come up with ...

Maya Hawke is breakout star of Stranger Things and offspring of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke - here's why we love her so much.

WEYBRIDGE —. Weybridge haiku test. draws a lot of good entries. applaud the winners. The above haiku wouldn't win a prize, but far better ones did at the ...

How Michigan-commit Sierra Kersten went from a broken heart to the fullest heart with hard work and perspective.

Aussie actress Teresa Palmer is a force to be reckoned with, and she's opened up to OK! about all things health and veganism after giving birth to her third child.

Following your dream and becoming an artist can be a difficult path, and JEN HORGAN marvels at those who pursue it. Here she meets three Cork artists — an ...

The title is perhaps melodramatic—but publishing a quarterly periodical means that occasionally there is scrambling to pull together an issue. This is particularly ...

The history of poetry publishing in this country is an honourable, if unstable, one. Presses arise often through the enthusiasm of one person, thrive for a few ...

Back in 2006, I managed to score tickets to a Bob Dylan concert at the Jackson Coliseum. At the time, the poet laureate of Rock & Roll was touring with Merle ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): After analyzing unusual animal behavior, magnetic fluctuations, outbreaks of mayhem on Twitter, and the position of the moon, ...

Written from three perspectives which connect to provide a combined view of life's moments, Damian C's new poetry collection “Poems by Damian C: The Devil ...

Patti Smith's 1978 unearthed and rare poem about The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards is absolutely perfect.

Debby Ryan shares a heartbreaking tribute to her Jessie costar Cameron Boyce in a new Instagram post.

Salman Rushdie, who has been married four times, is dating a woman named Rachel Eliza Griffiths, an acclaimed poet.

Fair City actor Karl Shiels was remembered as a magician, a hustler and a "comet that burned bright" at his funeral.

What you should (and shouldn't) be listening to this week.

Ben Okri was once asked how poetry could help us in troubled times. His answer was: “Poetry goes straight to the truth of things, with extraordinary gravity, with ...

Our love affair with love poetry's as old as time and showing no signs of fading, writes Rita de Brún. Time was when the Bible was considered the oldest book ...

A fallen icon can never truly die. They are memorialised in the work of artists, the pens of history, and the lips of the people. As much as Nelson Mandela's own ...

What is going on in America? Some mornings you look at the news and immediately have to look away again, as if current events were the sun, so incendiary ...