To the long list of things that are harder than they look, add judging live poetry competitions. Saturday, the Spirit Lake Poetry Series Board hosted its annual St. David's Day reading at St.

It was a night of uncanny accessories — from the frying pan hanging from the band Flagrante Delicto’s xylophone to the artfully rumpled bandana in event coordinator Jake Levine’s back pocket, the ...

Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati met on a blind date. "We share the same agent," explains Burgess. "She said, 'You need to meet this client of mine.'" Over coffee in Brooklyn, they discovered that they ...

WEST NEWBURY — Poetry is cool. That’s the message the Mayhem Poets brought to the Pentucket Regional School District last week. Throughout the day this trio of performers from New York City mesmerized ...

Kwame Alexander won the Newbery award in 2015 for his sports themed novel-in-verse The Crossover, and is now touring the country to promote its prequel, Rebound. Next spring, he’ll begin publishing ...

Rejoice, poetry lovers, because April is here which means it's officially National Poetry Month, and entire 30 days dedicated to stunning stanzas, visceral verses, and prophetic poets. As part of your ...

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime? Words with Wings and... In 'Words with Wings and Magic Things,' poetry is ...

Charissa and Josiah Cogan join Ben Willcox, (right) young adult librarian at the Nathan Hale Library, as he prepares for an Anonymous Poetry Contest for Teens, part of Teen Read Week. Poetry slams and ...