“It’s one of the moments of Western consciousness,” says Frederick Seidel, 90, the author of more than a dozen collections of ...

Though I am an old, straight, somewhat offbeat, off-white guy who may not identify with the identities or the psychology or technology of current high school students, I was once a high school student ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana’s new poet Laureate gets inspiration from the people, places and stormy weather of the bayou state. Alison Pelegrin, a published poet and writer-in-residence at ...

Tennessee Hill’s South emerges in her poem as a character, a personage that haunts and possesses her with beauty and a certain disquiet. Her poem, “Crater Heartk,” moves from fragmentary image to ...

Bill Moyers, who died last month at 91, will be remembered for his work as a top aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson and a later career in broadcasting. But Moyers shaped my life most vividly in his ...

April is National Poetry Month and a good time to consider beginning a poetry writing practice for yourself and/or your ...