In a few years’ time, stanzas of poetry will dot the town of Middlebury like X’s marking hidden gems on a treasure map. By the end of next year alone, five original poems will be engraved into the ...

The tone was set early. It was afternoon at the Poetry Project’s New Year’s Day Marathon, the 50th since the event’s debut in 1974. After an hour and a half or so of poems, the day’s topic had come ...

Mattie Quesenberry Smith has always pursued her passions. From receiving bachelor’s degrees in biology and English and creative writing to becoming Virginia’s poet laureate about a week before ...

Whitman, Alabama refuses simple categorization. It’s part documentary, part literature, part civic ritual. Blending journalism, poetry, and art, Whitman, Alabama offers a portrait of America built one ...

While Twitter might often be considered the complete antithesis of literature, some writers like Margaret Atwood disagree with that idea, saying that the social network and the Internet boost literacy ...