Professional and amateur poets alike gather to celebrate their love of the literary art every July at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing.

Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds ...

As if it were a jump shot from their basketball-obsessed childhood, “soaring towards the rim like a kite,” Andrea Gibson ...

A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.

Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

The Bible is teeming with creativity in poetry and prose. A Glendora church is witness to art feeding the soul in a new ...

The Statue of Liberty, France's gift to the U.S., was originally viewed as a tribute to the end of slavery. But poet Emma ...

Waiting for her wandering friends. She sure has stood the test. Don McAnally is a resident of Jackson.

LADY ONE: Of Love and Other Poems Breyten Breytenbach, . . Harcourt, $23 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-15-100762-2 ...

Lady Gaga debuted her new single “Abracadabra” during the 2025 GRAMMY Awards. Taken from her eighth studio album, Mayhem, the anthem is classic Gaga built upon the theatrical dance-pop and ...

In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of 2024.

Eric Omondi vowed to gift a young lady who wrote a sweet poem to him, as a token of appreciation and acknowledgement of his efforts in changing lives.