The weekly Writers’ Block Poetry Night has some elements you might expect. At a recent show, many poets signed up to read pieces on grief and identity, generating snaps and applause from the audience.

Twenty-eight million American adults read poetry this year -- the highest percentage of poetry readership in more than 15 years, according to a survey of arts participation conducted by the National ...

Northwestern’s Workshop in Trans Studies organized a poetry night Thursday evening with readings by two transgender writers in University Hall. The Workshop in Trans Studies is a graduate working ...

Godmothers Grow: The Sacred Circle with Diana Raab, Ph.D., a space to gather, reflect, and connect with kindred spirits ...

Of course, I didn’t listen and tried to partake in everything the conference offered, from the early morning classes to the talent show and the pirate workshops, which often lingered into the wee ...

One of Lighthouse Writers Workshop‘s goals when it opened its new facility earlier this year was to open up the writing world – literature and its creative pursuit – to more of the general public. “We ...

Penn Yiddish professor Kathryn Hellerstein discussed the role of translation in Yiddish women’s poetry and its influence on literary history at an event hosted by Kelly Writers House on Feb. 19.

Poetry isn’t as popular as it used to be. However, it’s still one of the most important and creative forms of literature. As it turns out, it’s fairly difficult to mess up a poetry app, apparently.

Poet Jerome Rothenberg visited Kelly Writers House on Sept. 29 to read poems from his most recent book, “In the Shadow of a Mad King.” A mix of Penn students, professors, and members of the ...

Thom Tammaro was 14 when he discovered Bob Dylan. Sitting on his bed listening to Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” he’d move the needle to play “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” and “Desolation Row” over ...

For members of the Southern Minnesota Poets Society in Mankato, poetry is an opportunity to take personal, authentic, even daily and seemingly mundane experiences and turn them into something vivid ...