The Poetry Zone still meets at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum, though these days, only a few gather around a patio table in ...

Iris Murdoch, the formidable Irish and British novelist and philosopher, died in 1999. Since then, the Murdoch industry has churned. We’ve had three memoirs about her from her husband, John Bayley ...

John Contreras is one of Milwaukee's hardest-working typewriter poets. He will be at the OnMilwaukee Spelling Bee and ready ...

Discover poet Amanda Gorman’s best quotes and excerpts from poems to leave you feeling more energized and hopeful.

In 2005, at the age of 24, William Horsted had his first poem published, in The Spectator. He still has a copy of the ...

Larry Levis’s work, gathered in the expansive new book “Swirl & Vortex,” was equally concerned with the soul and the void.

There's something rather poetic about a service designed to breathe life back into poetry getting resurrected after all these ...

This week’s poem, Betsy Sholl’s “At the Post Office,” offers a scene of an immigrant woman struggling with a simple task in a new city. I love this poem’s richly empathetic description of this human, ...

Sylvie Terjesen, a Canyon Crest Academy junior, won the regional Poetry Out Loud recitation competition Tuesday. Next she’ll ...

Here are five short game poems, all playable in a web browser, that explore themes of love, intimacy, longing and separation.

Shirley Rickett’s Tales weaves memoir and poetry into an unflinching life story shaped by memory, art, and the questions that linger after growing up. This book is my attempt to give voice to the ...

The Best American Poetry, an annual anthology of verse, contains an unusual contributor’s note this year. It’s written by Michael Derrick Hudson, a white poet who writes under the pseudonym Yi-Fen ...