Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water ...

Introduced by Rosa Alcalá, the Woodberry Poetry Room’s T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading spotlighted Cecilia Vicuña’s creative work.

Anedda writes of “sweetly/ radioactive sea anemones” and a “herd of clouds” and “the bridle ... is the author of five collections of poetry, and helped bring the Mass Poetry Festival ...

You are also compassionate and a lover of poetry and music ... today because of a temporary dark cloud on the horizon. That’s the key word though — “temporary.” Tonight: Work.

Harkness Hall for WORD’s annual fall spoken word poetry show. WORD Creative Director Adiyah Obolu ’27 told the News that WORD ...

The 2024 Mic Check Poetry Fest, billed as a two-day celebration of spoken word and its power to bear witness, create ...

Isabella Dail, head editor of The Prospect and staff writer for News, interviews Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon about his ...

In poet Fady Joudah’s sixth collection, […], the titular poem includes the line: “There are precedents, always will be/ and ...

Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — For Rudy Francisco, one of the most widely known spoken word artists in modern poetry, it started with a feeling. When he first saw a spoke word poem ...

Spoken Word Poetry has been around for millennia. The advent of language, which conservative estimates put at about 60,000 years ago, made it natural for oral tradition to become man’s primary ...