As an English and creative writing professor at UAA for nearly 25 years, Sexton spurred young writers to chase opportunity ...

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Berkshire poet David Giannini’s new collection 'Stones Are the First to Rise' explores nature, politics and the shifting ...

Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...

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The past ten days have been a blur of illness, transforming my life into a nonstop subway with just three stops: bed, ...

Do you ever think about how poetry’s is relevant to politics? Dujie Tahat does. Tahat is Seattle’s new Civic Poet for the ...

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An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in Wiltshire ...

One of the things I was most excited about for college was the opportunity to take courses on more specific subjects than I could in high school. Through eight semesters ...

Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.