I’d been conditioned to believe that all women should want both of those things and be quietly apologetic if we failed to ...

Young poets of Kashmir, mostly in their twenties, remain largely unknown. Some are aware of the risks of antagonising ...

October: Monster by Dzifa Benson “One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her ...

Intellectuals, writers and activists visited Lynchburg poet Anne Spencer. Starting Tuesday, Special Collections visitors can ...

By Melissa Karen Sances For the Valley Advocate “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” — ...

In Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles asked: "All the lonely people—where do they all come from?" The answer to that question is ...

The Instituto Cervantes in Naples presents the second edition of the Mediterranean Poetry Festival. Thursday, October 24th ...

In her poem “Break Your Face,” Vongsay writes, “If my ancestors taught me anything / It is that fire creates new life / An ...

Students were honored with certificates as several of them wrote poetry on gun violence in the city. Organizers want the festival to recognize young people in the community. Faith leaders ...

But this first biography makes me feel like I know him and his large body of work intimately. Michael Nott, coeditor of “The ...

MARTINEZ — A Hayward man was arrested by New York police just minutes after being sentenced to 364 days in jail for taking and burning a woman’s ... Husary read a poem aloud in court the ...

Melissa Helton, editor of an anthology of writing and photos about the 2022 floods in Eastern Kentucky, sits down for a Q&A.