In this well selected and compulsively readable anthology, Harvard English professor Burt (We Are Mermaids) presents 51 poems that address and exemplify queerness in America. In the introduction ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide to Forgive.” I was struck by how timely it is. The message is much needed at this time. I believe in “doing unto others as you would ...

The nonprofit group Mass Poetry is holding their Teen Spoken Word Festival at Emerson College. The Write Here | Write Now | Speak Loud Festival featured workshops, performances, and competitions ...

A fractious embrace was the subtitle of Jonathan Koestle-Cate’s excellent book from 2016 on Art and the Church, and that remains the case for those seeking to explore the interactions between art and ...

MacKenzie Bailey, a senior at Logos Academy in York, secured a top-five finish at the 2025 Pennsylvania Poetry Out Loud state championship, held on March 3 at the State Museum in Harrisburg.

Baylor junior Elizabeth Silva won the state Poetry Out Loud competition in Franklin, Tn., becoming the first Baylor student to do so. As the state champion, Ms. Silva will participate in the ...

Sawyer Wilhelmi (second from right), a junior at Starkweather High School, is pictured as the third-place finalist in the 2025 Poetry Out Loud State Championship held recently in Bismarck.

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

"Who are you trying to strangle? And what god are you serving?" Hertgen wrote in one poem published to Facebook in September 2024. "I can see the knives sharpening. I can hear the arrows whizzing.

What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt, edited and translated (with Genese Grill) by Samantha Rose Hill (Liveright, 208 pp., $26.99) Buried deep in Hannah Arendt’s archives in the Library ...