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 ...
The ever-popular Poetry Open Mic Series continues at the Springfield City Library on Saturday, April 25th at 2:00 p.m. We welcome guest hostess Maria Luisa Arroyo, local poet, translator, and educator ...
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...
GILLETTE – WyoPoets has established two scholarships for attending its spring workshop April 23-24 in Gillette. A general scholarship is open to all who need modest support. The Underrepresented Poet ...
A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – National Poetry Day, observed each year in October, serves as a reminder of poetry’s enduring power to stir emotions, spark imagination, and capture human experience in just a ...
Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential Black poets in America. A graduate of Howard University, he was ...