Three hundred people filled the Merrill Cultural Center to hear celebrated poet Ellen Bass deliver the keynote presentation ...

National Poet Laureate Arthur Sze will host a free public reading, “Words Bridging Worlds: On Poetry and Translation,” at ...

Her poetry is grounded in both sensuality and spirituality. The ability to celebrate life’s joys and sorrows while seeing the ...

Discover the readings that define the city's storytelling culture—from basement shows to marquee bookshop events.

Diversity is collaborating with Salem State University professor January Gill O’Neil for a book signing and reading of her ...

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian American writer Ilya Kaminsky’s poem “We Lived Happily During the War” went viral across social media. Poetry can often help people make sense of the world in ...

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June Neas Bryer-Bass patiently sat on her mother Sally Neas’s lap as June’s grandmother (and Sally’s mother-in-law) Ellen ...

Northern Michigan University’s MFA Poetry Student Reading
 is set for 1-2:30 p.m Saturday at the Peter White Public Library Heritage Room in Marquette. The PWPL partners with NMU’s MFA Program to ...

In collaboration with Poets Against Racism & Hate USA, Indiana Poet Laureate Curtis L. Crisler will be presenting a pop-up ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...