Along with teaching at Five Acre, Bridge is also the Clallam County Poet Laureate. She spent her childhood in Sequim with her ...

In an age dominated by fleeting content, poetry emerges as a quiet force with profound cognitive benefits. Recent research reveals that reading verse can sharpen associative thinking, boost mental ...

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Editor Miles Leeson presents Poems from an Attic, a newly published collection of Iris Murdoch’s previously unseen poetry. Found in a box long after her death, these intimate verses offer fresh ...

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” — William Shakespeare, 'Romeo and Juliet' Ask most people for a list of the most illustrious poets of all time, ...

So, you’ve heard that poetry is making a comeback (I mean, isn’t it always?) and you’re thinking it might be time for you to hop aboard that well-versed bandwagon. After all, everyone’s reading life ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

In September, the National Endowment for the Arts published surprising new data: poetry reading in the United States has almost doubled over five years. A 2012 NEA survey had found that only 7 percent ...

Adam Zagajewski, who died in March, 2021, was an award-winning Polish poet. Clare Cavanagh’s English translations of his poetry collections “True Life” and “Collected Poems” are forthcoming. “The ...