During his residency at Fordham in the mid-1800s, Edgar Allan Poe often took long, contemplative walks, but not across the High Bridge that connects Washington Heights to the Bronx, as it has widely ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential Black poets in America. A graduate of Howard University, he was ...

A once-a-decade list of the brightest talents in poetry in the UK and Ireland has been unveiled. The youngest of the 2014 crop is rapper, performance poet and playwright Kate Tempest, 28, chosen for ...

Poetry Day is a celebration of poetry for everyone, everywhere. It’s a day when poetry takes to the streets. It’s a chance for you to use poetry to say things that can’t be said in prose. They mean an ...

In Canada, the announcement of a poetry award short list is always a cause for celebration. And, invariably, it is also a cause for complaint. We poets, you see, are notoriously hard to please. Some ...

During his residency at Fordham in the mid-1800s, Edgar Allan Poe often took long, contemplative walks, but not across the High Bridge that connects Washington Heights to the Bronx, as it has widely ...

Tempest's Brand New Ancients, an epic poem set to a live score, won the Ted Hughes Award in 2013 A once-a-decade list of the brightest talents in poetry in the UK and Ireland has been unveiled. The ...