University of Illinois Press, 109 pp., $50 hardcover, $19.95 paperback Mark Strand, former poet laureate of the United States, has received countless awards. Coming nearly 45 years after his first ...

Juneau-based poet Emily Wall has been working on a book of birth poems for six years. She collected birth stories from as many different people as she could, asking participants to recall specific ...

Listen to a 9th century Irish poem in its original language Dr. Mark Harman recites the 9th century Irish poem 'Pangur Ban' (author unknown) in both Irish and an English translation. Dr. Mark Harman ...

Adam Wolfond’s poem is mostly written in declaratives, giving it a sense of confidence. As a nonspeaking autistic artist, prose writer and poet, Wolfond uses language as an invitation to witness and ...

A university in Berlin will paint over a poem that is inscribed on its facade after students complained it was sexist, The Local, an English-language news outlet in Germany, reported. Alice Salomon ...

High Country News’ twice weekly email newsletter includes our latest on-the-ground reporting and investigations from across the West. Few Americans realize that between the world wars, there was a ...

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 ...