Kathleen Rooney taped a small sign to the long table at the center of the Grainger Ballroom, at the top of the opulent swoop of stairs on the second floor of Symphony Center. She took her seat beneath ...

A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism ...

Spoken word poetry is very popular and there are a number of well-known spoken word poets. As well as winning poetry awards, spoken word poet Kae Tempest has also been nominated for music awards ...

MANKATO — Richard Meyer has never been a prolific writer, describing himself instead as sporadic. “I can’t force myself to sit down and force a poem to come,” said the Mankato author. “I have to begin ...

Lounge picks five recent collections of poetry that move between the past and the present, private and political From exquisite lyrics to lines burning with passion, the tenor of these poems varies ...

Renowned Chinese poet Yu Xiuhua has made headlines by saying that the menopause was a happy thing and writing a poem in its praise. Yu, 49, from a village in central China’s Hubei province, achieved ...