Poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf of Bellefonte received the Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2024 WCoNA Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia for her impact on northern Appalachia’s distinct ...

NEW BEDFORD — Local poet and cultural organizer Erik Andrade has been recognized for his contributions to Black literature with the publication of two original poems in Black Fire This Time Vol. 2 and ...

James Madison University’s fourth decennial Furious Flower Poetry Conference is scheduled for Sept. 18-21. The landmark conference will also include a banquet on Wednesday, September 18 that will ...

More than 50 Jewish poets gathered earlier this summer for the first-ever Yetzirah Poetry Conference, part of a new initiative to create a “hearth” for Jewish poetry. Over the past few months, ...

For many Americans, the poetry of Robert Frost conjures images of bucolic life in New England — trees and forests, mountains, snow, walking trails and moonlit nights. So why are dozens of the nation’s ...

In Lyudmyla Khersonska’s 2022 poem “War. Day 1,” a woman wearing “cheery pajamas” wakes up to an uninvited guest outside her door: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “In the morning, rockets ...

INTERNATIONAL: On Sept. 1, local poet Jessica Jacobs launched the nonprofit Yetzirah, the first literary organization in the U.S. for Jewish poets. Now, she is preparing to bring poets from around the ...