Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Discovering open mic poetry About fifteen years ago, I read a short poem in public at an event hosted by Mahendra Kutare, ...

This year, the IALA is welcoming its new class of mentees for their fifth annual Mentorship Program—which will run until ...

George Wilkerson and Kat Bodrie share a unique relationship. Wilkinson is an inmate on North Carolina’s death row. Bodrie is ...

Fresno has long produced award-winning authors, including multiple poets laureate across the state and national levels. But ...

The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...

IrishCentral contributor Clare O'Connor introduces us to the self-published Irish writers who united to create the "Rewind" ...

President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to acclaimed poet Paul Durcan, who has died at the age of 80. His family said he would be “sadly missed by (his wife) Nessa, his daughters Sarah and ...

Vallejo youth become published poets in ‘Pencils and Dreams’ Vallejo’s Poet Laureates and Vallejo Teaching Artists recently celebrated the publication of their anthology, which includes over ...

Nikki Giovanni, a renowned poet, author, educator and public speaker, was the subject of the award-winning documentary "Going to Mars." ...

Read more: Poet of More Tolerant Tomorrows : Giovanni's Brutal Insights Tempered With Compassion In 1968, she self-published her first volume of poetry, “Black Feeling Black Talk / Black Judgement." ...

Taylor Swift is self-publishing a book, cutting traditional publishers out of the deal. This is not the first time she has circumvented an industry.