In a quiet moment on an otherwise ordinary afternoon, Modise Sekgothe found out he had been selected as only the second poet to win the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Poetry in its 40-year ...

A Nigerian creative writer and poet, Ibrahim Nureni, has emerged as the first Nigerian and African to be honoured at the prestigious Maya International Haiku Contest. Nureni earned second place in ...

The Hawthorne-Longfellow Library is currently in the midst of its annual weeklong celebration of poetry as part of National Poetry Month, which is held every April. This year the library is ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - A free event at Robinson Film Center aims to celebrate National Poetry Month. On April 25, starting at 6:30 p.m., Poetic X’s Speak Poetry Fest invites the community to enjoy a ...

Aamir Aziz published the poem on his YouTube channel in January 2020 during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens protests Aamir Aziz, a poet whose spoken word ...

My encounter with Spanish-Latin American poetry began entirely by chance. In 1959, I was admitted to the Department of Chinese Language and literature at Peking University (PKU) but was redirected ...

Another Side of Bob Dylan marked one of the first times Dylan the poet turned introspective. Before this, he had pretty much only written impersonal songs. These songs were culturally relevant and ...

Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images Share A self-described “numbers guy,” Bears coach Ben Johnson decided to give poetry a try. He stood at a podium in front of about 100 guests Tuesday at the Brian ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - April is National Poetry Month, and the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington has some recommendations. One of the ways the library spotlights the month is with its Phone-a ...

Poetry Moment Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally ...

A North Salinas High School student has been named the 2025 and 2026 Monterey County Youth Poet Laureate for the Arts Council for Monterey County. She officially begins her term on May 1.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...