Newtown resident Charles Rafferty is preparing for the publication of his new collection of poems. BOA Editions has announced ...

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Brenda Cárdenas is Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate. As the state’s ambassador for poetry, the Milwaukee native hopes to inspire creativity through workshops, projects and meeting with young people.

After baffling scholars for over a century, Cambridge researchers have reinterpreted the long-lost Song of Wade, revealing it to be a chivalric romance rather than a monster-filled myth. The twist ...

Leni Acosta Knight is hosting a "Healing Through Art & Poetry" fundraiser to raise money for the Kapiolani Health Foundation.

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Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the final installment and continues her style of lively, lyrical translation.