The longlists for the CBC Literary Prizes are chosen by a team of writers from across Canada. Meet who will be reading the ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.

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After that ritual nitrate-laden animal sacrifice, complete with smoke ascending, the poet’s father — to whose memory ...

For National Poetry Month, Oregon's poet laureate is bringing "the electric illumination of our collective human experience" directly to the public with a daily poetry hotline. If you need a little ...

This week’s poem, by James Brasfield, offers a dream-like meditation on a grandfather, memory, and an ever-shifting sense of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. poems to read on a break The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you ...

Of course, at 93 I am not as good at memorizing as I used to be,” the Oscar-winning actress and author says. “But it is good ...

Maya Angelou’s legacy goes beyond the body of work she shared with the world during her lifetime. Her legacy as one of the greatest writers of all time also embodies the ability she had to hold on to ...

BRATTLEBORO — Over 90 poems from 47 poets are up in shop and restaurant windows downtown as part of the Poems Around Town initiative. And for the first time there will be copies of selected poems at ...

Maywood Environmental Park will host a free Language of Nature poetry reading and discussion at 10 a.m. May 16. Guests can ...