A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – National Poetry Day, observed each year in October, serves as a reminder of poetry’s enduring power to stir emotions, spark imagination, and capture human experience in just a ...

It is not often that the name of Enid Blyton, the bestselling children’s author, is mentioned in the same breath or the same sentence as literary giants, such as Homer, Virgil or Dante. The reason for ...

In collaboration with Poets Against Racism & Hate USA, Indiana Poet Laureate Curtis L. Crisler will be presenting a pop-up Indiana Chitlin Circuit poetry reading event from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 13 from ...

Despite being one of the great living poets, Oswald refuses to read in public. Rarely leaving her home in Southern England, she objects to flying and, apparently, dislikes well-lit rooms. So – to many ...