These questions remind me how much I appreciate my students in our prison education program. I remember one moment in a course I taught some years ago, on 19th Century Literature and Philosophy, when ...

Overview: The Amarillo Public Library will host a free poetry reading on Tuesday evening with Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, an ...

It’s been 10 years since the Messthetics first formed, with the rhythm section of influential post-hardcore band Fugazi ...

British poet laureate Simon Armitage has met schoolchildren at London Zoo, where he recited the new poem he has written to ...

Given my long-term interest in the broad topic of animal sentience, I'm always looking for new ways to express what science and other sorts of inquiries are telling us about animal consciousness and ...

This pairing of the late Worth's exquisite poems with Jenkins's (What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?) extraordinary, cut-paper illustrations make this a volume to treasure. Characteristic of the ...

STILL TO MOW is the sixteenth volume of poetry from Maxine Kumin, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate. The title comes from John Gardner’s statement in an old Yale Review: “When you ...

Alison Hawthorne Deming, Nalini Nadkarni, Jane Hirshfield, John Elder and Jody Gladding Credit: All portraits courtesy of poet. Alison Hawthorne Deming courtesy of Bear Guerra. Seven Days delivers ...

Anna Tivel’s songs unfold like poems whispered across a room—delicate, precise, but carrying the weight of entire lives. She has long been one of folk music’s most poetic voices, a songwriter who ...

There’s so much music coming out all the time that it’s hard to keep track. On those days when the influx of new tracks is particularly overwhelming, we sift through the noise to bring you a curated ...