Two groups that carry Paterson's arts scene are collaborating on a series of poetry events called the Poetic License Project. Here's what's planned.

What is poetry? Is it stanzas written on a page? The flow of words in a certain rhythm? And why have humans done it for thousands of years? These questions are at the heart of a—relatively ...

That is a lovely, fundamentally hopeful notion, but a sigh of melancholy echoes through the poem. “Of Mere Being” is one of ...

The Woodward Public Library will host a series of events in April to celebrate National Poetry Month, including a blackout poetry contest and a hands-on workshop led by a local poet. The library is ...

Code poetry is built on a simple premise: it is a single text that reads as poetry and executes as code. The new collection ./code –– poetry, published by Broken Sleep Books, brings a programmer and ...

Short, straightforward poetry is TikTok’s latest literary trend, attracting plenty of fans and critics alike, though some poets say the popularity of poems as short as one sentence long has made it ...

A freshman dorm mate won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry nearly a decade ago. His book sold, according to the last count that I saw, 353 copies. Sure, there is at least one young contemporary poet, ...

John Ernest, chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, wants to bring poetry to life, so sometimes he’ll start his classes with a dramatic reading of a poem. On more than one ...

I know Aranya Padil in many capacities: poet, friend, curator, editor. One thing that’s common across all these personas is the innately polyphonic nature of both his poems and his thoughts – ...