On rainy days, Reading’s sidewalks will shine with the creativity of young writers from the area. Haiku written by local children as part of the Rain Poetry project by nonprofit PA Humanities will ...

Flanders is the lyricist and co-founder of American Prize, Telly and Anthem Award-winning October Project, who are genre-defying recording artists, producers and musical activists who collaborate in ...

Arriving in Salem from Ventura, California, in 1998, Marc Janssen went searching for poetry. He found it in occasional readings he attended in Salem, nearby Silverton and Monmouth and Portland. But ...

The tone was set early. It was afternoon at the Poetry Project’s New Year’s Day Marathon, the 50th since the event’s debut in 1974. After an hour and a half or so of poems, the day’s topic had come ...

Cruz Villareal's poem Mi Pueblo found at Lansing's Brenke Fish Ladder If you’ve gone walking around Lansing over the past couple of weeks, you might have seen something on the sidewalk: Poetry. WKAR’s ...

Mattie Quesenberry Smith has always pursued her passions. From receiving bachelor’s degrees in biology and English and creative writing to becoming Virginia’s poet laureate about a week before ...

On the 50th anniversary of the founding of the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Berrigan collates a treasure trove of selections from its newsletters, featuring conversations with luminaries such as Allen ...

Since 1966, the Poetry Project in New York City has hosted an annual New Year's Day poetry marathon. Last year, it featured 250 performances, seen by viewers from every continent except Antarctica. To ...