Awareness of the dangers to our environment came of age in the 1960s, resulting in crucial legislation, a conservation movement and creation of the Environmental Protection Agency during the 1970s. It ...

Ashok Vajpeyi, born in 1941, occupies a singular position in contemporary Hindi poetry as a poet whose work quietly but ...

Where: The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. Cost: $25 plus fees. More information: getlitfestival2023.sched.com A poetry workshop hosted by Ada Limón on Friday at the Central Library is sold ...

Poet and author Stephanie Oakey debuts her first book, Poems of a Southern Nobody, a collection of over 60 poems that explores the kinship between nature, people, and time. She paints a vivid picture ...

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 ...

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we're reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing a ...

Humans spend most of their waking hours playing with what novelist Rudyard Kipling called “the most powerful drug used by mankind”—words. In the laboratories of our minds, we sort, slice, and string ...

If the Transcendentalists produced no great poets, they did produce an oddity in Jones Very (1813–1880). To write about him is almost inevitably, and not without reason, to couple his already striking ...

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

Now is the last chance to book tickets to two events at Wordsworth Grasmere on Saturday, September 13. Join Ben Verinder, ...

Yet making Everything around it A shadow. Published in the print edition of the May 6, 2024, issue. Paul Tran is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Their début poetry collection, “All ...