When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

If the young poets were nervous, it didn't show. Each of the teenage bards walked or bounded onstage and recited her or his verses with self-assurance and enthusiasm - apparently undaunted by the ...

Author Charles Waters was a late bloomer when it came to reading books, but poetry offers a way in that covers all sorts of interests.

The works by Ms. Jiles include prizewinning poetry and richly told novels following the lives of those on the old American ...

He has published 12 books of poetry, including, most recently, Fall Higher and Bender: New & Selected Poems. Young’s poetry is nothing if not a marvelous conundrum. He has said that “to tie too close ...

Poetry can be many things, and vulnerable is one of them. Former-US Poet Laureate and essayist Rita Dove says, “Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” I agree.

Tennessee Voices, Episode 300: Alora Young, poet and author of 'WALKING GENTRY HOME' The Tennessee Voices podcast brings readers conversations with authors of insightful and compelling guest columns.

The My Town Mississippi Poetry Project, launched in Fall 2022 in collaboration with the Mississippi Center for the Book, and the Mississippi Young Writers Poetry Festival are made possible by a ...

ANTIWORLDS by Andrei Voznesensky; translated by W. H. Auden, Richard Wilbur, Stanley Kunitz and others. 120 pages. Basic Books. $4.95. Poetry, like steam, is made under pressure. In Russia the ...

Ed Young, whose illustrations in some 100 children’s books, many of which he also wrote, mesmerized young and not-so-young readers with intricate depictions of fairy tales, poetry and his own ...

Johnson said all of her books, including her debut young adult novel "You Should See Me in a Crown" — which made Time's 100 Best YA Books of All Time list — are set in Indiana.