Honduran native Daniel Letona immigrated to the Boston area to build a high-tech career. He also found a community in the ...

In rural Illinois, where I teach, a local poet named Edgar Lee Masters is famous for his "Spoon River Anthology," which tells stories about small-town life. But even though Masters is well-known, it’s ...

How do you write about the life of a man who was “all his life… patiently learning how not to live at all”? Poet, critic, ...

Bayard Public Library Hosts Poetry Workshop and Open Mic with New Mexico Beat Poet Laureate PW Covington ...

The musician talks about incorporating a sampled beat into "The Star-Spangled Banner" and discusses his future with the ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Before diving into the hype for The Odyssey, check out the 1997 miniseries of the same name from NBC that hits all the major beats of the Homer poem.