Chera Hammons has an unabashed love for the land she calls home and an appreciation for what others have deemed the "ugly" plains of the Texas Panhandle. The imagery the 34-year-old poet witnessed ...

Renewal. Rebirth. Hope. These are the things Spring so often stands for, especially now after our collective “winter of discontent.”* For the Howe Writing Center’s annual poetry contest, we seek ...

In times of grief, we often turn to poets to describe the indescribable. Last Wednesday, writer John Keene put on a tuxedo and won a National Book Award for a new poetry collection that includes his ...

Jeffrey Brown profiles David Ferry, a poet concerned with making connections to classical literature. Ferry was recently honored with the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize as well as the National Book Award for ...

Bertony Louis has won 13 international poetry prizes, been published in the Harvard Review, studied in Glasgow and more. What brings here?

Sixth-grade student Jantzen Mahiai-Paleka from Kaunakakai Elementary School was awarded the grand prize in the 19th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poetry Awards on May 30 before a crowd of ...

New York City’s wordsmiths tweeted in droves last week as part of this year’s #PoetweetNYC Twitter poetry contest, and as promised, we’re publishing the five winning entries right here in Metro today, ...

On a breezy recent October day, two Bates colleagues, professor Ian Khara Ellasante and multimedia producer Theophil Syslo, headed to the Androscoggin River in nearby Greene. There, they worked on a ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...