Oprah Winfrey will sit down with poet laureate Amanda Gorman for “The Oprah Conversation” on Apple TV Plus on Friday. The 23-year-old poet, author and activist became an instant sensation when she ...
Airea D. Matthews is the 2022-2023 Poet laureate of The City of Philadelphia. (Courtesy of Wes Matthews) In 2020, poet AIREA D. MATTHEWS was awarded a Pew Fellowship and joined the Radio Times ...
The Poet’s Tree is an online weekly event hosted by Old Globe Teaching Artist and spoken word poet Gill Sotu. It takes a deep dive into the world of modern poetry and offers interviews as well as ...
Ashley M. Jones, an alumna of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of English, was recently appointed to serve as the next Poet Laureate of Alabama. She holds an MFA from Florida ...
Simone White doing a guerrilla reading at the Museum of Modern Art (all photos © Lawrence Schwartzwald, used with permission; no reproduction without express ...
As the year draws to a close, we asked a few NPR reporters to reflect on their favorite pieces of tape from 2006. Debbie Elliott kicks it off with a look back at her interview with the poet Jack ...
ALLEN GINSBERG: (Reading) I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves through the Negro streets at dawn, looking for an angry fix.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A local restaurant is looking forward to their first poetry night featuring an award winning poet and it’s an event you don’t want to miss. KB Cafe Owner Katherine Bernard and ...
The poet laureate of the United States—an official appointed by the Library of Congress to promote the reading and writing of poetry in America—seems an odd and irrelevant functionary for a Britney ...
The journal’s poetry editor, Eric Elshtain, interviews the poet Thalia Field by e-mail about her book Point and Line and about writing and art in general. Ms. Field tells Mr. Elshtain that the ...
Never miss a beat. Get our free daily newsletter. District Line Daily covers local politics, culture, and the Needle—our daily quality of life index for D.C. under the Trump administration. Kay Ryan: ...
Jim Daniels’ first collection, Places/Everyone appeared in 1985. I was 19. I came upon this book by chance killing time at a used bookstore in Ann Arbor. Up until that moment, I thought I knew what a ...