We'll admit it: poetry isn't always accessible. Poetry collections can be dense and difficult to interpret, and — though usually short in length — they can still contain volumes. However, there's a ...

“Don’t allow being a woman or a person of color limit you,” Lena Fields-Arnold said. From the time her poetry was praised by her fifth-grade teacher at Belmont Elementary School in the 1970s, local ...

HOPEWELL, Va. -- A recent Hopewell High School graduate is being recognized for her talent in spoken-word poetry. Azhane Pollard gave a small sample of her poem "Generations" that won in the 2021 ...

Janet McCormick Harrington is not a professional poet. She has written down verses over the years and simply tucked them away. One day, her daughter gathered them and published them. The poems tell a ...

“This crisis affects more or less everyone, and poetry can help us process difficult feelings like loss, sadness, anger, lack of hope.” By Jane E. Brody Many, perhaps most, of us have spent this past ...

The founders of the original Poetry Circle, active in 1980s and ’90s Bombay, launched an updated forum where poets can meet ...

In America, St. Patrick’s Day has somehow transformed into a holiday where people swill green beer while the bar plays the same Dropkick Murphys’ songs over and over again. If you’re young enough to ...

ROCKFORD (WREX) - One Rockord native is using her voice and the art of poetry to inspire the community to be more accepting of one another despite different backgrounds and despite what we may sound ...