The evening featured music and dance, poetry, reflections on historic achievements, honors for two Riverhead educators and a moving keynote address by Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr.

The 75-year-old poet, translator, and editor is the 54th recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a prestigious award ...

Nancy Miller Gomez is the county's new poet laureate for 2025-26, having officially been announced to the position at the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors' Jan. 28 meeting.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

A Feb. 6 concert held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, honored the life and contributions to rock 'n' roll of famed Native guitarist ...

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

Becky and Benny were childhood sweethearts who went their separate ways in college. Now, she is his wife and caretaker as he battles Alzheimer's.

Research shows that AI companions can help lonely individuals, at least in the short term. A 2022 study found that ...

Welcome to Monroe Street Books, a bibliophile’s paradise nestled in the heart of Middlebury, Vermont. In a world where ...

Join in for a “Poetry Share,” a supportive and noncompetitive way to present your work or simply enjoy the words of local ...

February, and the events of this year so far have not inspired much optimism. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are being slashed, hundreds of people have lost their homes to fires and members ...