Working Classics:Poems on Industrial LifeEdited by Peter Oresick and Nicholas ColesUniversity of Illinois Press, 269 pages, $34.95, $13.95 paperHandspan of Red Earth:An Anthology of American Farm ...

Poems about work and working. News In Brief by Melissa Kaplan. Save. Share. Bill Radke had a great talk this morning with former poet laureate Billy Collins.

Poetry Matters: Women’s Work: Toward a New Poetic Language For Women’s History month, curator David C. Ward considers the steady ascendency of poets from Emily Dickinson to today’s Eavan Boland ...

Shea Memorial Foundation is hosting a "Library Poetry Tour" featuring poet Kris Salvi visiting public libraries in Douglas, ...

The quintessential work poem is probably I Hear America Singing, by Walt Whitman. It reminds me of the seven dwarves singing Heigh-Ho on the way to the diamond mine in Disney’s Snow White.

Ohio Wesleyan University Professor Laurel Anderson has won a 2025 Pushcart Prize, widely considered one of publishing’s most influential awards, for her poem “Ransom Note.” ...

But unlike other migrant groups, Black Americans did not assimilate and were victimized by prevailing racism. These historical truths energize Nzadi Keita’s stunning new collection of poems about a ...

Philip Levine won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1995 for his 15th collection of poetry, The Simple Truth, and now, at age 83, he has been named the next U.S. Poet Laureate. Levine is widely ...

Over 40 local poets submitted works to our 2024 Xpress Poetry Contest.This year’s competition asked writers to pen an original, previously unpublished piece that explored the theme of our shared ...