Poetry in the Bowl, Finger Lakes Country Music Festival, Movies with a Downtown View, and a Juneteenth celebration are all taking place this week.

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 ...

Blanco's latest collection of poems, How to Love a Country, was published last year. The following poem is excerpted from that work.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...