The late Mike Pride, a Concord Monitor editor on the "poetry beat," describes the lives and works of the New England poets he ...

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New collections from Alexandra Teague, Daniel Borzutzky and August Kleinzahler tap into a strain of cultural anxiety.

James Thurber, who died in 1961, was a cartoonist, a writer, a journalist, and a playwright. Is Matt Walsh Trying to Make “Am I Racist?” the “Borat” of the Right? In his work with the ...

It also produces Poets.org, the world’s largest publicly funded website for poets and poetry; established and organizes National Poetry Month each April; publishes the Poem-a-Day series and American ...

Directed by English dance producer Farooq Chaudhry, "Ten Thousand Tons of Moonlight" is inspired by the poetry of Yu Xiuhua and her unusual life experiences. Yu herself will join another three ...

Here’s a fact that would have sounded wildly unlikely a decade ago: the most popular and influential poet writing in English ...

“I’m a performer. I think it’s kind of funny.” She then waxed poetic about the very nature of performing. ”People, I think, assume that someone like me that performs, that my performance ...

And, to my surprise, people started to react. They wanted more poems. As I have covered more conflicts, I have turned to poetry more and more, because it's sometimes — sometimes, the language we ...

Beyond his various songwriting contributions and his own musical projects, Souther also lent his vocal talents to many memorable songs by other famous artists. In commemoration of his passing ...