Poetry might not be what customers were thinking about when they walked into Tinker Coffee on North Illinois Street, but a ...

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Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

To paraphrase Audre Lorde, we need poetry because there are no new ideas — only new ways of making them felt. "And, boy, do ...

Right before the pandemic, someone gifted Rosemarie Dombrowski the fascicles of Emily Dickinson — essentially a series of ...

The Magic of Books store will host a free presentation and book signing featuring local author Joseph F. Persinger at 2 p.m.

Cadence Video Poetry Festival comes but once a year, and yes, it might fall on a glorious April afternoon with the sun out (emphasis on might) and cherry blossoms calling, but trust me on this—get ...

While reminiscing about poetry slam and the Worcester Poets' Asylum, I found poems I first heard years ago echoing through my ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

Saved by the Beauty of the World,' a documentary about the famed poet directed by Sasha Waters, has been acquired by Kino ...