You might not have heard of the Salish Sea Poetry Festival before, but that’s about to change. The up-and-coming organization ...

Jeet Thayil turns a mirror to the country and himself in his new book. Gandhi is reborn as a house gecko, the government is fake and his love grows wings and flies away.

Auburn University's literary arts magazine, The Circle, is preparing to release its spring issue in April. Submissions, which ...

Hungarian-born British poet George Szirtes has been awarded His Majesty’s Gold Medal for Poetry for 2024 by the United ...

New Directions Publishing Essex HemphillThe Great Storyteller 1957-1995 As a Black gay writer and activist, Essex Hemphill used words as a weapon, a ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

VLR publishes a variety of poetry, prose and visual art in both a print and online issue each semester. Submissions are open ...

Emily Cushion recounts stories from Plath's time at Cambridge, reflecting on the pragmatism of her university writing ...

Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.

This article contains information that may be distressing, including repeated references to domestic abuse. Please be mindful ...

My shelves are stuffed with books in small-print, not just for the Sabbath, as allegedly were Philip Larkin's. Mine are ...

L.A. indie publisher Unnamed Press has started a poetry line devoted to “collaborative cross-media projects,” and its first ...