For those of us north of the equator, winter officially arrived last week. The early darkness and the chill in the air demand ...

There’s a week left to submit your entry to The Telegraph’s 2026 Poetry Competition. Back by popular demand, this is the ...

The American poet Violet Ranney Lang was born in 1924 and died in 1956, of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, at the age of thirty-two. Although last year marked the centenary of her birth, the occasion passed ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

The Brockton Public Library will host a poetry event at 2 p.m. Jan. 17 in the Driscoll Art Gallery at the library, 304 Main ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

Slam poetry in Chicago is getting a shot in the arm from Frankie’s Tee, a media platform and talk show founded in 2024. Hosted by west-side natives Tanya “Tee” Smith and Frankie Fabre, Frankie’s Tee ...

From inaugural poems to the songs we listen to, poetry is all around us. We just have to allow ourselves to see it. Poetry can and has had a tremendous impact on our society. Still to this day, I ...

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