Poetry News

It is a long and venerable tradition of Russian literature that doctors love literature, many of them to the point of becoming writers themselves.

If there's time to spend a lazy afternoon, sit on a sunny porch or just to relax in a gently swinging hammock then Dottie Richardson's new book of poems is an ideal companion.

At the Poetry Brothel in Brooklyn, Nicolas Adamski dons an eye patch and becomes Tennessee Pink.

If we're looking on the bright side of things, one group is actually benefiting from the economic slowdown and high gas prices we're facing - libraries.

Chatham native Claudia Emerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and English professor, knows the routine of giving speeches and signing books.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 By our correspondent Karachi World renowned Urdu poet Saleem Kousar exhibited his first visual poetry.

LAHORE: Ahmed Faraz, Pakistan's much loved poet, died in Islamabad on Monday night after a long struggle with a host of ailments, having taken ill in the first week of July while on a visit to the United ...

Robert Burns's poetry might have been dismissed as "sentimental doggerel" by Jeremy Paxman but that hasn't stopped diminutive I'm A Celebrity contestant David Gest and pop legend Michael Jackson from recording ...

Governor Tim Kaine is appointing University of Mary Washington professor Claudia Emerson as Virginia 's new poet laureate.

Soldiers carried the coffin of Army Private First Class Paul E. Conlon out of Christ the King church in Mashpee yesterday.

In 1948, my grandmother was expelled from Palestine. Like many of the 780,000 evicted that year, she never saw her birthplace again.

The fifth annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival will return to Old School Square in Delray Beach for six days, Jan.

Islamabad: Pakistani Ahmed Faraz, considered one of the greatest Urdu poets and an ardent advocate of better ties with India, died here at age 77.

One of the editors of Cider Press - Robert Wynne - has responded to unethical behavior regarding their Cider Press Review Book Award.

The 16th annual Junction Arts Festival is offering what it calls a "Poetry Peepshow," giving participants the chance to "peer into an open window of a poet's soul." The Sept.

Monday, August 25, 2008 Saadia Khalid Islamabad With the introduction of dozens of cheap mobile phone packages, the trend for massaging quotes, riddles and jokes witnessed a sharp increase, but a shameful ...

The South Carolina Poetry Initiative at the University of South Carolina is accepting entries for the state's fourth annual chapbook contest.

Duration: 56:46 CC Stereo TVG A documentary about the uses of poetry at a large teaching hospital in Florida.

Students Gerald Maa, 27, center, of Washington, D.C., and Christian Anton Gerard, 26, right, of Norfolk, Va., refill food trays in the buffet line as lunch is served during the Breadloaf Writers Conference in ...

In my Google Alerts this week, I found a rare gem. I've been soliciting info about continuing education around the world, so any news about lifelong learning in foreign lands jumps out at me.