Located on campus, the UA Poetry Center remains one of the most expansive collections of contemporary poetry in the nation. A lot of people may not think Tucson is the place to be if you are a poet, ...

Editor’s note: This column was written earlier this school year, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent school closures. Although many people may not consider Slam Poetry a sport, it holds the ...

Forget expensive Valentine's Day gifts for him, shouting to hear each other at a crowded restaurant, forking over your life savings for Valentine's Day chocolates of indeterminate flavors or desserts ...

When the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in March 2011, Yuri Yamamoto was living far from home. She was born in Tokyo, but has lived in North Carolina since the '80s. Even so, she felt a need to ...

Amanda Gorman performed “The Miracle of Morning” on CBS in April of 2020 to help heal the nation. “For it’s our grief that gives us our gratitude, Shows us how to find hope, if we ever lose it. So ...

“There are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.” That’s how “Poetry,” Marianne Moore’s early 20th century poem about the venerable art form, is presented via a wholly new art form, the ...

The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) and Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB) have launched The Big Amazing Poetry Project. The initiative marks 30 years of MCB’s poetry list for children ...

I'm going to think I'm being clever here and ask you a question similar to one you asked poet W.D. Snodgrass when you interviewed him for The American Poetry review in 1986, when you said you looked ...

To anyone who thinks that poetry is mostly written by stuffy, old dead men, think again – because there’s a whole new group of poets taking the literary world by storm... and they’re kids. Kate ...