The new documentary captures one of the last year's in spoken word poet Andrea Gibson's life, and their relationship with ...

Poetry can help us to both celebrate life and to face the challenges of this world. When I was 12, my father died of cancer. In those days, people did not talk to children about death like they do ...

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Mary Margaret Hughes, who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Her introduction to poetry came early when her mother read Shel Silverstein books to her. She ...

Maria Shriver is a dear friend, and one of the most thoughtful people I know. Over the years, I’ve watched her navigate immense joy and deep heartbreak with incredible grace — and now she’s sharing ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

Educator and SU alum is the new Washington State Poet Laureate.

Diane Seuss’s fourth book of poems, “Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl,” is anything but still. This collection showcases a poet who is writing some of the most animated and complex poetry ...

Bill Moyers, who died last month at 91, will be remembered for his work as a top aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson and a later career in broadcasting. But Moyers shaped my life most vividly in his ...

Gregory Orr, above, and Sam King will discuss “Can poetry save your life?” in the Guild Hall on Sunday, April 8. It’s National Poetry Month. Who cares? What good is poetry, anyway? Poet Gregory Orr ...

More than 100 modest and intimately scaled artworks in Still Life and the Poetry of Place provide glimpses into interiors, both humble and opulent. Jane Freilicher, "One Cat, Two Fish" (1974), oil on ...

Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s book of poems arises from her work as a biographer in the archive of Charmian Kittredge London, the wife of Jack London and also a writer herself, defined by her own life in the ...