April is National Poetry Month and that’s because of an initiative by the Academy of American Poets beginning in 1996. The Academy claims National Poetry Month is the largest literary celebration in ...

Two accomplished Connecticut writers and performers, Anne Farrow and Wally Swist, will celebrate romance by reciting 20th century love poems at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington on Feb. 10. The event, a ...

Once a month, a group of people from Hicksville and surrounding communities gather in the basement of the Hicksville Public Library united by one thing: a love of poetry. The group is led by ...

Poetry can be one of the more intimidating literary genres to shop for, especially if you’re buying a book for someone else. While the likes of Amanda Gorman, Ocean Vuong, and Rupi Kaur have recently ...

A shared love of reading, writing and reciting poetry united students, teachers and an alumni of Zachary High School for National Poetry Month in April. The second annual Poetry Slam held April 17 in ...

World Poetry Day is celebrated every year on March 21 to honor "the unique ability of poetry to capture the creative spirit of the human mind," according to the United Nations website. This date was ...

In the state that was home to Emily Dickinson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, where Edgar Allan Poe was born and where Robert Frost died, critics of new national education goals fear that poetry will ...

Poetry at the Mansion series for 2025 will include events that explore satire, love and lust, holidays and much more ...

There are poems that express fragile sensitivity, poems that strive for cosmic profundity, poems that offer up idyllic perspectives on life that we would all be wise to emulate. But chances are, those ...

Not sure if I fell in love with poetry or it fell in love with me? I started out as a radical indigenous poet grouped with other radical writers and we or I thought I could change the world. It was ...