Virginia’s Lt. Gov-elect Ghazala Hashmi (D) holds a PhD in poetry and selected five poems for fellow Democrats that brought her comfort over the past year.

That, in essence, is the question asked four decades ago by Judith Chernaik, an American writer in London who wondered ...

London's Poems on the Underground celebrates 40 years of bringing verses to commuters - Judith Chernaik, an American writer ...

The girls wait for two or three hours to be introduced. The reason they’re sitting on the ground is because there weren’t any chairs in the waiting room’ ...

Crisosto Apache has been chosen as Colorado’s new poet laureate.

Colorado has a new ambassador for poetry. Crisosto Apache was named the next poet laureate for the state at an announcement ...

Nilo Cruz is, first and foremost, a poet.

Coloratura mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato jumped at the chance to sing a song cycle based on Emily Dickinson's poetry by ...

HIV-AIDS struck gay and bisexual men hardest, but the real catastrophe was a government and culture whose hatred and ...

The novel takes seriously the question of whether you can read Proust and have a day job, circling the perennial tension ...

One of my students recently wrote me a poem about her learning experience in my third-year design studio. It was thoughtful, honest, and unexpectedly moving—but it was the opening lines that truly ...

These are among the new titles with local themes or released by local writers, listed in alphabetical order by author names: ...