Damien Deen placed second in the Poetry Out Loud competition in Washington DC on April 28th and 29th. Damien became ...

Describing a work of art as “didactic” has become a way of writing it off. But works such as HBO’s “The Pitt” push us to ...

CommonLit 2026 weaves its Civic Responsibility theme and project-focused culminating tasks into the 5E instructional model, aligning with ELA standards for speaking, listening, and performance.

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Philip Glass and the Poets on Sunday, May 17, at 7 p.m. at Campbell Hall. In this episode of ...

Since , prominent state-backed eulogists such as Mahdi Rasouli, Hossein Taheri, Seyed Reza Narimani and Hossein Sotoudeh have ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.

It’s incapable of producing anything creative that isn’t dreck. If Anthropic had offered me $15,000 to use five pieces of my published work to train its large language models, I would have said no way ...

The Whitman Public Library will host 'Poem's Calling' on May 6, featuring local poets and an open mic session.

When we enter a museum like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, we see ourselves as viewers, as if our primary task ...

Let’s memorize a poem! Not because it’s good for us or because we think we should, but because it’s fun, a mental challenge with a solid aesthetic reward. You can amuse yourself, impress your friends ...

Could I but ride indefinite As doth the meadow-bee And visit only where I liked, And no man visit me, I’d soar above the verdant hills, In search of hidden glades, Where sunlight filters through the ...

Most performers at the Uptown Poetry Slam get one poem; Del Valle, who made a surprise appearance for National Poetry Month, still had the crowd rapt after eight.