There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets – often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Meanwhile, the Lincoln ...
Tracy K. Smith, former U.S. poet laureate, poses for a portrait at the Hatch Shell in Boston on Aug. 17, 2021. For nearly three decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith has used her craft ...
Despite popular belief, poetry isn’t exclusively the realm of stodgy white guys in tweed jackets waxing nostalgic about blades of grass and such. As one of the most visceral and versatile forms of ...
The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press was recently awarded a $250,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support the curation and stewardship of poetry archives related to ...
Learn to write poems inspired by paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, and various forms of visual art. In this 2-week class, you'll study works by other poets such as Robin Coste Lewis, Danez ...
On November 5, 2023, a Sunday evening, a shroud of smoke engulfed the heart and lungs of Delhi. Anilkumar Payyappilly Vijayan, aka A/nil, arrived with his wife Aparna and two daughters Pappathi and ...