The Howe Writing Center's annual poetry contest, “Colors,” invited Miami writers to explore the multiple ways colors intersect with their lives. Presented with an array of colors, writers distilled ...

NPR news poet and University of California, Berkeley, professor Tess Taylor has a spring roundup of poetry books that are all debut collections. And I'm Robert Siegel ...

Each spring semester, the Howe Writing Center hosts a poetry contest In honor of National Poetry Month (April). For 2023, the HWC worked with University Libraries to promote the theme of “Writing Back ...

Spring Festival, also known as Lunar New Year, is one of the most anticipated, large-scale and celebratory seasons in Chinese culture. Around this time each year, families and loved ones gather no ...

If you're having a rough go of it this spring, don't worry. I've got 11 poetry collections to read that will reflect your inner world and open you up to a whole new outer world. These books are some ...

There are some big retrospectives (Bidart, Dove, Rich) on the slate this spring; mother (Notley) and son (Berrigan) drop new books; and one could do worse than just picking up anything from Copper ...

This spring poetry review is a spring poetry anti-review. It is all so subjective isn’t it? After a collection of poems has already made it through the jangly rites of agents and editors and elegant ...

In a fitting conclusion to National Poetry Month—which celebrates the importance of poets and poetry in our culture—a double poetry launch will be held on April 30 at Burns Library. It highlights the ...

As National Poetry Month draws to a close, we recognize five new volumes that celebrate the form, including verse probing the darkness at the edge of everyday life from U.S. Poet Laureate Charles ...

Spring is here, awakening the forsythia, crocuses and poets. Many of this month's winning poems deal with some aspect of spring, from its annual awakening to one poet's desire to die in the season of ...