Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis poet, wife and mother, was shot and killed Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, setting off nationwide protests over the ...

Founded in 1997, The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College has a core mission to bring poets of national and international stature to campus to inspire students and the Smith community. All ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Bayou Meto Elementary School is a public school located in Jacksonville, AR, which is in a fringe rural setting. The student population of Bayou Meto Elementary School is 464 and the school serves ...

The Jacksonville North Pulaski School District is dealing with fallout from the arrest of a former Bayou Meto Elementary School custodian for the alleged sexual assault of at least one student. That ...

Plan out which events you will attend during the city's three-day literature festival next weekend. We invited Londoners to put their own words to the city to celebrate 40 years of Tube poems. We ...

Before Renee Good became the center of a tragic news story, she was a writer. She won an Academy of American Poets Prize in 2020, for her poem, On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs. The poem is wry and ...

Traci Brimhall joins Kevin Young to read “ Refrigerator, 1957,” by Thomas Lux, and her own poem “ Love Poem Without a Drop of Hyperbole in It.” Brimhall is the author of five poetry collections, ...

In 977 AD, a Persian poet named Ferdowsi began on a grandiose poetic journey that would take him 33 years to complete. He used ancient Persian tales which had been told from generation to generation ...