Silence the inner critic, says New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, who recommends writing for yourself, without judgment.

If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and poems in ...

The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien contains nearly 250 individual works spanning more than five decades, 70 of them ...

Educators are conscious of the value of exposing students to great works of poetry, but the teaching of poetry often lacks a ...

Emilie Buchwald comes from the literary world. Mark Connor from the boxing ring. These two Minnesota poets from very different backgrounds debut their new collections this week. And we start ...

A yahrzeit is the anniversary of a death. Jews tend to remember these things. We light special candles in honor of our dead ...

Marcus Cafagña, a professor emeritus at Missouri State University, recounts the poem that emerged from his son's childhood ...

How would an official poet laureate “speak” to the spoken word, slam or hip-hop communities, or to bush poets, or to ...

Julia Donaldson has hand-selected over 300 poems for new book Pick and Mix Poetry. Here, she tells us about the inspiration ...

Les Murray has been gone five years now, and there’s no telling how he’ll be remembered in a century’s time. When he died, he ...

KOCHI: Her life was bound by the rigid routine of the office, managing the human resources at her company. The romance of ...

Watson will introduce his books at 7 p.m. Tuesday at SubText Books, 6 W. Fifth St., St. Paul, with Michael Kleber-Diggs and William Reichard, and at 7 p.m. Oct. 1, Eat My Words Bookstore, 214 13th Ave ...