Annie Dillard is rightly celebrated as a pioneer in creative nonfiction after her death on Sep. 15, 2026, at age 81. But the ...

There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets – often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Meanwhile, the Lincoln ...

Quaker poetry has a long tradition. Despite the suspicions of the first generation of Quakers, who were concerned that music ...

Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent collection, “The New Economy,” was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry, and one of their poems was included in “A Century of Poetry in The New ...

As Bob Reitman’s new album 12th House showcases his spoken word poetry, WUWM wanted to connect him with different generations ...

In a world of doomscrolling and the prescriptive responses of AI, young people are increasingly turning to poetry: a form that is raw, honest and authentic. Poetry also invites the absurd and the ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Over the past six weeks, six poets have been invited to write essays for The Scotsman as part of a collaboration with the ...

Following several years of organizational growth and creative collaboration, the Poetry Foundation reveals a new brand identity, starting with the October 2026 issue of Poetry magazine. The brand ...

Poetry in the Park will be celebrating its 25th anniversary later this month, and to kick off the celebration, there will be a poetry reading just before that. On Thursday, Sept. 24 at ...

Safia Elhillo was a freshman in high school when she started keeping a diary to record her heartbreaks. All of her entries were poems, so if her parent ever found them, she could hide behind the ...