On Nov. 6, UMass Downtown hosted four guest speakers — Abigail Chabitnoy, Hannah Brooks-Motl, Joan Tate and Melissa Dickey — ...

Known for praising the city with “big shoulders,” the beloved 1914 composition recently was recited in a ruling addressing ...

Our great grandfather hadn’t crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 112 years — but he was about to.  Maybe not all of him, but a ...

Before her Nov. 17 appearance at St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater for the Talking Volumes literary series, Baer talked with the ...

The project has highlighted a new generation of African poets and created a visually beautiful archive in the process.

TAMPA, Fla. — Two women had a morning full of birthday festivities as they both turned 100 this year at a local senior center ...

Somewhere between a masterclass, a fever dream, and a didgeridoo solo… lies @AndresParadaComedy. A clown, a banjo, a poem, ...

One of the last things that child tells Ruth is that “Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ...

Edwardsville English teacher Kirk Schlueter joins the likes of fellow poets Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell with his newest ...

Her poetry first appeared in Arabic in the mid-1980s. In 2005, New Directions published her collection The War Works Hard, translated by Elizabeth Winslow, which was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry ...

PEN America has announced the winners of its 2025 Prison Writing Awards, honoring 33 incarcerated writers from 20 states for their work in poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, and drama, with the judging ...

A decision to ban girls over the age of 12 from reading poems or singing at public events sparked anger in Afghanistan this week, with literary figures and campaigners saying it marked a backwards ...