On Dec. 16, the Garden City High School Literary Circle held its 30th anniversary of the Winter Solstice poetry reading. Club ...

A poem read aloud is a mysterious thing. Poems, which are really just potent combinations of words, have the power to sneak in and disturb someone in surprisingly intimate ways, provoking emotions, ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

The newest addition to poetry sites on the Web has the lofty goal of becoming the first port of call for poetry lovers around the world. Launched by British poet laureate Andrew Motion, The Poetry ...

When I founded the Milwaukee Avenue Messenger, a quarterly arts and literary journal that celebrates the vibrant communities and independent DIY artistic tradition of Chicago’s Milwaukee Avenue ...

In September, the National Endowment for the Arts published surprising new data: poetry reading in the United States has almost doubled over five years. A 2012 NEA survey had found that only 7 percent ...

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Stroll by the water and over the grounds, listen to poetry, then view and purchase paintings, for a cause. Join us first in the main house and later walk down to Bryant’s Gothic Revival Mill. This ...