B rookline, M ass.—For years before the pandemic, our father, the poet David Ferry, accepted invitations to read in public on any pretext: an academic conference, a bookstore benefit, indoors, ...
Join Nation Poetry Editor Kaveh Akbar and poets Katie Farris, Ama Codjoe, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Ilya Kaminsky for the magazine's Fall Poetry Reading. Date Sep 27, 2022 Time 4:00 PM PT | 7:00 ...
On November 15, Poetry Magazine received a $100 million bequest from Ruth Lilly, heir to Eli Lilly and his like-named pharmaceutical behemoth. This isn’t the first time the arts have been promised ...
In April 2015, The Washington Post published an article that combined insult, injury, and statistics with a ruthless efficiency. Headlined “Poetry Is Going Extinct, Government Data Show,” the ...
With spring well underway, the weather warming and the Earth coming back to life, is it any wonder that April is designated National Poetry Month in the United States? The literary celebration was ...
It's April, and that means it's time for one of our favorite things here at ALL THINGS CONSIDERED - poetry. Today is the start of National Poetry Month. And every April, we celebrate by asking our ...
As the world celebrates World Poetry Day (WPD) today, CHINAKA OKORO writes that the country should take advantage of the celebration to encourage Nigerians to embrace poetry as a tool to fight ...
A year-long project by the nation’s poet laureate focuses on the natural world and what’s at stake due to climate change. Ada Limon’s "You Are Here" exhibition will take her to National Parks around ...
There's a science to the way Dominik Sretenovic approaches poetry. First, Sretenovic chooses a poem he will read out loud in front of judges and his peers. He picks one that makes him feel something, ...
From American Masters' In The Making: The Ground I Stand On is a lyrical and meditative documentary short that explores the work and creative process of Alejandro Jimenez, Mexico’s 2021 Slam Poetry ...
Allan Monga had never given much thought to poetry before last summer, when he arrived in Maine as an asylum-seeker from Zambia. At the time, he was almost completely alone, living at a teen shelter ...
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