Carroll was only 17 years old when she left her native Co Mayo, an experience she detailed in this unnamed poem she wrote in the 1980s. “She was an amazing woman and had a great life until she ...

“Lotsa love, K,” she wrote in reply, with some encouraging words that lifted my spirits at a dark time. She was a great one ...

This week's Jefferson Award winner is a Berkeley woman who has promoted child literacy for four decades, as host of a ...

Kennedy made a mark on the city by encouraging then-Mayor Anne Rudin to declare Oct. 26, 1986 as Sacramento Poetry Day in ...

Released in 2022, in the wake of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody, the song has become an anthem for protests in Iran ...

She Is More' pay-as-you-can community event taking place Nov. 23 at Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion on Dunlop Street ...

More than 400 poems have been written by children from across Wales to show their support for the Cymru women's team. This is the first time the team has reached the UEFA Women’s EURO play-offs. The ...

The celebrated poet and longtime Santa Cruz resident Ellen Bass is the latest in a long list of poetry luminaries to speak at ...

In 2016, he shared his experimentation by fitting the words of saint poetry into his composed tunes among his musician friends and received positive feedback. This encouragement led him to create ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...