NO ONE EXPECTED the huge response that "Can Poetry Matter?" generated, especially not its author. I wrote the essay to address -- as directly and candidly as possible -- the increasing cultural ...

“A lot of people walk out of here in disgust — or it’s just too much for them to take.” Anthony Flores is prepping me on the imminent verbal onslaught as we sit at the bar inside downtown slam-poetry ...

A poet respects his audience. Writing poetry for young people is not for everyone. In addition to learning how to apply the traditional tools of the poet’s trade, one must understand the audience, and ...

Poet, translator and essayist Brian Sneeden came to Storrs Center for a poetry reading at the University of Connecticut Bookstore in which he read and discussed work from his book “Last City.” He also ...

Urdu poetry has always lived through the human voice. Its power lies not just in what is said, but in how it sounds ...

Her poetry is grounded in both sensuality and spirituality. The ability to celebrate life’s joys and sorrows while seeing the ...

Her Pulitzer Prize-winning work "Life on Mars" explored life by going to the stars and back. Now Tracy K. Smith, the new US poet laureate, says she wants to bring poetry down to Earth for an audience ...

I love being in front of an audience. As a true-to-form Aries sun, Leo rising, I've done everything — given hour-long speeches with ease, gone on TV to promote Elite Daily, worked as a full-time ...

The event was a part of the Gyanamrit Lecture Series, organised by the Nanded Education Society to celebrate its “Amrit ...

Arts lover Carol Schneider took in her first poetry slam six years ago in Arkansas and was so impressed by the discovery of a new kind of performance that she vowed then to bring it to Texas. "It was ...