Joseph Coelho is urging mums and dads to not only read poetry to their kids, but get them writing it too. “I would absolutely encourage parents to try and read poetry to children at bedtime ...

Writer Ken Slesarik turned to poetry, both reading it and writing it, after the death of his son. He explains how poetry has helped him heal.

Year six and Year seven pupils at Forres Sandle Manor took part in the breaking of the record for the world's largest ever ...

Glorious snow! We moved to northern Michigan in part because we wanted snow. The first few years we got buckets of it. I ...

Dr Sanjeev Chopra Authors of most books published in the last two years – and I know this from reading the Prologue/Preface/Acknowledgments in books nominated for the Valley of Words Book Awards – ...

A University of Virginia poetry professor says the reason might be a simple matter of taste. “We all want very different things from verse,” said Lisa Russ Spaar, a professor of English and creative ...

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George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time.

Myra Sklarew, a poet and teacher who found inspiration for her graceful, meditative verses in the natural world, her Jewish heritage and her early years working with rhesus monkeys at a research lab, ...

The Adirondack Center for Writing is inviting North Country residents to participate in its 10th annual installment of Poem ...

Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.