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The Pulitzer Center congratulates the 2025 Fighting Words Poetry Contest winners and finalists! This year's Fighting Words ...
This Dallas-based press has been publishing international books for 12 years. Among its latest releases is this novel from ...
Kansas poet laureate Traci Brimhall is offering poetic sustenance to Kansas and beyond.
Closing out the season is the 2022 Pulitzer Prize–winning play “Fat Ham” by James Ijames. It is a modern-day reinterpretation ...
All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...
For many Iranians it was a lightning sequence of events: A 12-day war with Israel and a sudden, U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Now, as they return to their ...
The words of late Peninsula writer Irene Adler will live on, thanks in part to the posthumous publication of a collection of ...
Need to solve a challenging problem? Read or write some poetry! Compelling research demonstrates that poetry can accelerate ...
Anna Leonard’s poems explore the tender spaces between grief, memory, and transformation. Rooted in the body and the natural ...
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(THE CONVERSATION) To celebrate Father’s Day, The Conversation U.S. asked Philadelphia anthropologist, playwright and poetic ethnographer Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon to reflect on a poem she recently ...
For Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a poet, poetry was that which “makes nothing happen”. Arnold Bennett ...