Poet Elizabeth Willis will read selections of her work at Rozz-Tox on Thursday, April 10. Her visit is part of the Midwest ...

Sometimes reading poetry can feel exhilarating, like you are finally seeing and being seen. Other times it’s a slog that ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

Charles Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion.

Charles Flowers was born on Nov. 12, 1942, in Knoxville. The Knoxville News Sentinel published a notice that Howard Fischer ...

I walk around the city without a camera, which is like saying that I feel incomplete, because my memories will die sooner ...

It’s not quite right to call Eileen Chong’s sixth book of poetry, We Speak of Flowers, a collection. As Chong explains in her ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.