The Watauga County Public Library is inviting poetry lovers to a reading organized by inaugural High Country Poet Laureate ...

God drives down from the mountains behind the wheel of a Jeep, in this poem by Tracy K. Smith, former U.S. poet laureate. Smith illuminates the ambrosial bounty of Texas Hill Country, where she ...

April is National Poetry Month, a time to highlight the splendor and the strength of the written word. Across the country, poetry lovers are hosting literary readings, writing workshops and ...

In June, after decades as a significant presence for poetry readers, Joy Harjo was named United States poet laureate. A member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, she’s the first indigenous poet to ...

Here are four poetry books to close out the year → FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY: Poems, by Cynthia Dewi Oka. (TriQuarterly, paper, $17.) Across a range of playful styles, Oka’s third collection ...

challenged Americans Wednesday to unify and “leave behind a country better than the one we were left” as she delivered a stirring inauguration poem. Speaking at a US Capitol that just two ...

Upon that Armagh City stage Poetic wars did soon engage The travails of the country life Age, youth ... which doesn't drag The poem down - is a challenge I find. Free Verse is unrestrained without ...

Co-founded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, the competition involves state arts councils and schools across the country, as well as tens of thousands of teachers ...