Poetry and community go hand-in-hand. Sometimes lacking a defined form but always full of heart, they create a space for discussing, relating, exploring, expressing, healing. This year's Free Verse ...

IT is odd that people who feel virtuous in spending ten dollars for a seat at the opera, or a hundred dollars for a modern painting (let us put it mildly), do not dream of spending a dollar for the ...

April is National Poetry Month; a time to celebrate William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson and al the other great poets we all learned about in the classroom. On the extracurricular side though, why not ...

In Spencer Reece’s poem “Ayer,” from his new collection, Acts, the priest-poet talks about his bishop, who “had spent the day visiting churches/ and a gypsy that was begging for the host.” The worth ...

Google continues to inch forward in its quest to make it even harder for the Poet Laureate to continue to ply their trade. On Monday, the company announced a new AI project called Verse by Verse. You ...

In January, the National Endowment for the Arts released a report titled "Reading on the Rise," announcing that the number of American adults reading fiction had increased for the first time since the ...

I supposed you have food there, too, but here it is summer and we have asparagus, avocado, and stone fruit. I am so happy. The yard trees of my youth yield more fruit than we can handle. I was going ...

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Healing Verse Germantown will use poetry workshops and public art installations to help residents address gun violence and its trauma. Aspiring poet Zawadi Levy, 14, recites one of her poems at the ...