If you're in the market for a former library building, the City of Milwaukee of Department of City Development has got a ...

Solving Sacramento When Andru Defeye became Sacramento’s Poet Laureate in February 2020, he hadn’t yet heard of Sacramento ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Poetry Week is an expansion of Poetry Day, which was first announced in 1986 by then-Sacramento Mayor Anne Rudin. The week ...

Poetry is the distillation of thought expressed in a form designed to cut through the clutter of ordinary expressions and deliver a thought, a message, or an emotion that resonates with truth. And ...

Mark Jarman’s poem spoke to me today, such a short time before the election. Everything is always on the cusp, isn’t it?

Smith grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and later attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar. They came to poetry through theater, their first poem written for an ...

Set in the dusty city of Ranchi, Celestina and Lawrence is a film governed by unkept promises and incorrigible desires ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

It is in this context that the AVBOB Poetry Project pays tribute to the work of Sarah Lubala, a Congolese-born SA poet whose debut collection, A History of Disappearance (Botsotso, 2022), won the ...

Yusuke Morii's sophomore outing, 'Route29' follows two outcasts on a surreal road trip and recently premiered at Tokyo ...