There’s a poetry to it, a liminal feeling of being between two existences, that of night and day. The prefix “twi-” in Old ...

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

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

Combined with the atmospheric lighting, the performances were presented in an environment not often afforded to poets and ...

The specific seething spareness of the New England said/unsaid lives in Abbie Kiefer’s debut collection of poetry, “Certain Shelter” (June Road). Death hovers, “bodies stop being,” as ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

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