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

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Before publishing her first book, the poet Kate Greenstreet started ...

Books about his father’s death and his own coming to fatherhood — “Dear Darkness” and “The Book of Images” — are also astonishing and contain some of Young’s best poems. At just ...

Then, there is Sienna Rader-Gowda. She took first place in the Young Author’s Contest for the seventh-grade level for her story titled “The Land of Sandawo.” Emma Cho received hon… ...

But Tyehimba Jess, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author of “Leadbelly” and “Olio,” recalled a time in the early 1990s when the idea of getting an MFA in poetry, or even being a working ...

These women have a way with words. Female poets across the boroughs are breathing new life into a literary genre that’s long been dominated by older white men. Scribes like Chelsea’s Le… ...

It should come as no surprise that the people who edited an anthology of 85 young poets of the 21st century, after the Noah-like job of selecting 465 pages worth of writing, have distilled the ...

Honored for her poetry and her fiction, Ms. Howe "was truly one of the great poets of Boston and Cambridge," said poet and ...

The City of Boston has announced a search for its first Youth Poet Laureate . The young poet will serve as part of the city’s poet laureate program, working to celebrate poetry and elevate ...

Young published several books of poetry from 1969 to 2008, among them Dancing (Corinth), The Song Turning Back Into Itself (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston), ...

Kevin Young bobs his head to keep time when he reads his music-fueled poetry. He is no musician, but it appears as if he is playing an instrument as he sways back and forth in front of his ...