It is not often that the name of Enid Blyton, the bestselling children’s author, is mentioned in the same breath or the same sentence as literary giants, such as Homer, Virgil or Dante. The reason for ...

"Poets like Sylvia Plath, Mary Oliver and Adrienne Rich showed me there was a way out with words," writes former Mennonite ...

Poet Cheyanne Leonardo spent ten years as far from her rural hometown as she could get. But in the end, Scott County, Tennessee was the perfect place to build a “Little Town Poets Society.” Growing up ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – National Poetry Day, observed each year in October, serves as a reminder of poetry’s enduring power to stir emotions, spark imagination, and capture human experience in just a ...

Every year, the mainstream literary gates seem to open just that much wider to allow for more diverse stories and voices. To help push those gates open even further, National Black Poetry Day, which ...

The Yakima Coffeehouse Poets, a nonprofit formed in 2014 to represent the interests of poets and poetry lovers in Central Washington, is the organization behind this monthly poetry column, which runs ...