Poetry News

Hip hop has influenced a generation of poets coming to prominence, poets I call "The Inheritors of Hip Hop."

Lecturer Alistair Robinson, the degree programme leader for Journalism and News Journalism at the University of Sunderland, is launching The Land Before Yoghurt next week.

As part of National Poetry month, NHPR's Sean Hurley has been introducing us to a New Hampshire poet every Friday.

After Kim's Convenience, where does writer/performer Ins Choi go? Into the serendipitous and the mystical with a solo show called Subway Stations Of The Cross.

For Anya Ezhevskaya , art is worth the mess. In a unique live painting and poetry talk at College of the Mainland April 22 at 12:30 p.m. in the COM Fine Arts Building, she will demonstrate her seriously lighthearted approach to art.

This video highlights Raphael Campo - a physician and a poet who requires his medical students to not only read, but to write poetry as a facet of their medical training.

To commemorate National Poetry Month, we've been airing poems by the students of Kealing Middle School' s Blank Page writing program every day this April.

Uche Ogbuji is the editor for Kin Poetry Journal and The Nervous Breakdown, and also blogs at Copia and micro-blogs on Twitter.

We're continuing our Poetry Out Loud feature with Hannah Gould, a Junior at Jesse Remington High School.

The Cupertino Library's Teen Poetry Contest deadline is May 1 for high school and middle school students in the Santa Clara County Library District.

AN inspirational Newport granddad who suffered double tragedy after his son was killed and death of his wife has channelled his grief into writing and has just had his first book published.

Author Dan Guillory is scheduled to give a program of poems, notes and stories at the site's Visitor Center Auditorium on April 26. He is an emeritus professor of English at Millikin University in Decatur and the author of "The Lincoln Poems."

Internationally celebrated stage and screen star Tom Hiddleston eloquently discusses the the finer points of the poetry implicit in the language of William Shakespeare as part of a preview clip of a forthcoming documentary centering on the Bard.

The spotlight is on and the microphone ready for the tenth annual Poetry Cafe sponsored by the Estes Valley Library and Park Elementary School.

In the Writers' Alliance Fiction Award category, the finalists are "Strays" by Ed Kavanagh; "Caught" by Lisa Moore and Wangersky for "Whirl Away" .

This month on the Poetry Podcast, Michael Dickman reads " Cow ," by Ellen Bryant Voigt, which juxtaposes the pastoral aspects of farm life with its violent realities: a girl held out a handful of grass calling the cow as you would a dog no dice so what if she recoiled to see me burst from the house with an axe I held it by the blade I tapped with ... (more)

Mayor Martin J. Walsh has announced a search for Boston's next Poet Laureate and assembled a diverse and distinguished search committee.

The writings of a World War II poet, killed in Normandy in 1944, are re-discovered by the daughter he never knew.

What feelings that childhood poem evokes! Freedom! Hold on tight! On top of the world! Hearing the words, we can almost feel our legs pumping faster, or hear ourselves begging to be pushed just a little higher.

In a high school auditorium, dark but packed with teens, the young poets walked up on stage and into the spotlight, and unflinchingly bared a bit of their soul.