Staged by the National Theatre of Scotland, Through the Shortbread Tin sets out to explore the many-layered story of James Macpherson’s Ossian poems. We should expect a show full of questions and ...

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.

As fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo rages on, a growing number of women in the country are turning to slam poetry ...

Author Matthew Burgess and Caldecott Medalist Doug Salati spoke with each other via Zoom about their collaboration on 'Words with Wings and Magic Things'—an illustrated poetry collection in the spirit ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Ten local high school students will take the stage at the Academy of Music on Saturday, April 5, at 7 p.m. to compete in the ...

Stephen Huebner said he hopes readers are enlightened by his pithy yet informative reflections on ancient writings.

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...

What sets spoken word artist and new Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley apart from others is her vulnerability and honesty ...

Play the USA TODAY ... Ever Had,” is taken from the words of Enid’s first husband during his time in the Pacific. Kanke says she has written many of the poems in this collection over the ...

"Who are you trying to strangle? And what god are you serving?" Hertgen wrote in one poem published to Facebook in September 2024. "I can see the knives sharpening. I can hear the arrows whizzing.

Whether through poetry or memoir, these four authors are ... Although its original release date was Valentine's Day 2024, Partelow's words and the themes she explores are timeless.