Poetry News

AN AUSTRALIAN film and television star has told how a year in the Territory Outback as a teen inspired his latest album.

Friends of the Ashland Public Library will host a special author night on Monday.

Four editors read every submission for "County Lines," selecting the final poems in marathon sessions.

Through song and dance, family and friends mourned a teenage girl shot and killed a year ago.

The good thing about being a poet is that it is impossible to have an economic downturn.

Vatican City, November 28 - Spanish tenor Placido Domingo on Friday presented an album of songs based on poems written by late Pope John Paul II.

Chandigarh, Nov 28: Extolling the poetry of Sufi saint Baba Farid, Syed Afzal Haidar, a judge of Shariat Court of Pakistan and a noted Sufi scholar, said the common man was the focal point of Baba Farid's ...

Earlier this year, we took note of several public spaces where poetry has been made permanent in the form of public art pieces , and it's still happening.

The title of this rarely performed piece by TS Eliot is a crafty sleight-of-hand that belies the dramatic disunion unravelling on stage.

During Michael Hoover's convalescing, area poets will be contributing to his weekly column.

Senegalese writer Birame Ndeck Ndiaye has been awarded Africa's poetry prize for publishing popular poems and songs in 2008.

The search to find the next poet laureate is expected to be launched on Tuesday, with the public to have their say for the first time.

If you're a poet, does it also help to be fantastically good-looking? Clearly, it doesn't count so much as in the rock, television or movie industry where so much depends on looks.

Some of us were lucky to be in the room last night when Cornelius Eady kicked off the inaugral reading of the UC Irvine Black Writers Series by reciting this poem of Robert Hayden : Frederick Douglass When it ...

New England College is about to lose its status as the one school in the country with a poetry-only master's degree program.

PEEKSKILL - The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, 1701 Main St., will host 'The Form of the Matter,' a poetry and dialogue collaboration with the Hudson Valley Writers Center and stage director Mara ...

The annual Young Writers' Beat Night will take place on Thursday, Nov. 20 from 7 to 8 p.m. at The Press Room in Portsmouth.

Judges for the National Book Awards honored a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's "The Shadow Country," a revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s.

British fashion designer woos Indian audience with her vibrant colours Britains leading fashion designer, Caroline Charles wooed Indian audience with her spring/summer 2009 collection at Chivas Fashion Tour ...

Tickets are $10 and available at the door. Dancers Louise Runyon and Tom Bell will be joined by poet Alice Lovelace and the women's drumming group ConunDrums, combining the multiple languages of movement, ...