Although Ernest Hemingway’s novel makes positive claims about what one should be—brave, admiring of nature and grace—its ...

Last year, the Daily Times wrote about poetry platforms growing in Portsmouth, with the longstanding Port City Café open mic ...

Park Service dismantles President’s House exhibit on slavery Members of the National Park Service removed signage around the ...

"If you live in Michigan, I feel like most people enjoy the winter season," Sam Verbeek, 19, of Clarkson said. A ski and ...

Laura Cassidy’s books of the year include intricate yet accessible poems, a Cork City-based crime thriller, the Giller Prize winner 2025, and a top grade campus novel Molly Twomey’s work is intricate ...

English poet John Keats wrote about the paradox of fall in his 1820 ode “To Autumn,” where a time of fullness to the brim is also a time of near ending. You might remember the final image — “gathering ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, this is our pick of the best poetry books of the year. Whether you’re a ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

Poet Jane Hirshfield, who will be the keynote speaker at the 2026 Kachemak Bay Writers Conference, has said this: “What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and ...

Patricia Smith, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has received a National Book Award, the 2025 award for poetry, for “The Intentions of Thunder: New and ...

Gabrielle Myers, M.A. ’08, published her third poetry book this year. (Courtesy) Gabrielle Myers, M.A. ’08, explores the human experience in her new book of poetry. Points in the Network (Finishing ...

MANKATO — Richard Meyer has never been a prolific writer, describing himself instead as sporadic. “I can’t force myself to sit down and force a poem to come,” said the Mankato author. “I have to begin ...