CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Academy of American Poets has awarded Cincinnati poet Manuel Iris a prestigious national award.

Living during the early to mid-20th century, Simone Weil, a French philosopher, activist, and writer, was a religious mystic.

The Spanish Ambassador praises Goenawan Mohamad's contribution to advance journalism when presenting an award from King ...

Alongside her razor-sharp critiques on men and intellectual bravado, Sor Juana penned intimate love letters that read like ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted. "FOUR LETTER TV POEM FURY" thundered the front page of one British newspaper, condemning the "cascade of expletives".

Announcing the Eighth Annual Fighting Words Poetry Contest! How can poetry be an effective response to current events and the issues impacting our communities? How can journalism and poetry help us ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...

Amid vineyards and olive groves in the heart of Spain's La Mancha region lies magical Monte Arenas, home of the Pinilla family. Starting with Federico Pinilla, who built the estate in 1919 ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

“Break then your chains, in love unite, nor seek in foreign lands the sight of things not even found above,” the poem dictates. “Then, in your own house, you will see true ...