Tanya Talaga. House of Anansi (PGW, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $18.95 trade paper (328p) ISBN 978-1-4870-0226-8 Journalist Talaga’s debut, about the deaths of seven young indigenous ...

Poetry festival calls for contributions for book The High Wolds Poetry Festival in Kilham is asking for work on the theme of Connections.

One Golden Summer is a follow-up to Carley Fortune's debut book Every Summer After and tells the story of Alice, a ...

The PoetSmiley’s inaugural Bless the Mic slam poetry contest was held on June 14 at the WCR Center for the Arts in Reading. The sold-out event drew poets and audiences from across Philadelphia ...

That terrifying chant in the '28 Years Later' trailer and film is a 122-year-old Rudyard Kipling poem: director Danny Boyle explains why it's there.

Publisher and author Mary McCallum’s third collection is a salute to what is humane. The title poem Tackling the Hens is literally about trying to round up a bunch of squawking birds, but in ...

Poetry entries, of any number or length, on any theme, can be submitted until August 15. Entries are welcomed for festival reading slots and poetry book submissions.

"The later ones came to me on trains too, but also while sitting on my bed at home, walking by the river in Malmesbury, stamping my boots in her fields and wandering around town." Her debut poetry ...

Scholar T. Anansi Wilson coined the term “BlaQueer” to name the specificity of living at the intersection of Blackness and queerness. BlaQueer people have shaped every major movement for ...

Tom Wilkinson, left, from the Monroe County Museum, holds a copy of the newly published “Poems from a Prison Camp,” recently donated to the museum. At right, Frank Havelock, son of George Havelock, ...

In honoring these two writers, the James Beard Foundation didn’t just award excellence in writing. It recognized memory as a form of resistance – and Palestine, not as a fading cause, but as a living ...