Elmo Kelley, a second-grade teacher at Fontana’s Cypress Elementary School, has published two poetry collections and last ...

Over 15% of the award winners are queer people of color. They're exploring liberation through dance, poetry, cabaret, and intersectional cultures.

But then poet Kathleen McGookey takes a flight of imagination as her prose poems veer to the surreal: glowing golden vials of ...

Desire/Halves,” the debut collection by Jai Hamid Bashir, brims with animal energy, the snake, the dog, the oyster, the deer, ...

Aliyah American Horse has experienced incredible success as a young poet, earning state, regional and national recognition.

New collections from Alexandra Teague, Daniel Borzutzky and August Kleinzahler tap into a strain of cultural anxiety.

"Finally...love." In honor of National Poetry Day, Dame Helen Mirren recites one of her favorite love poems, "At Last...Another Heartbeat" from the late Marcellus ...

During the COVID shutdown, actor/filmmaker Ed Burns, like a lot of us, became separated for weeks from family and friends.

At 17, Vanessa Hunter is Charlotte's inaugural youth poet laureate. She shares an original poem with WFAE and talks about ...

Generations of Athenians may recognize the name Coleman Barks for his illustrious career in the literary arts. An ...

October 7 marks the 175th anniversary of the birth of James Whitcomb Riley, the renowned poet who was born in Greenfield in ...

Yung Pueblo's latest book hopes readers can learn how to love better through self-awareness and show compassion instead of ...