BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: "Much of WNC is like a Blue Ridge Parkway overlook — you have this beautiful view in front of you but trash around your feet," says poet Clint Bowman. "Everything isn’t as ...

“Novel writing was my original love, and I still hope to do it,” says Amanda Gorman, whose new poetry collection, “Call Us What We Carry,” includes the poem she read at President Biden’s inauguration.

FAYETTEVILLE -- Volumes of poetry "in the world, we will never see," but poet Jane Hirshfield is "absolutely sure" the fact these poems even exist "changes the air we breathe and the [world] we live ...

Daisy Fried is the author of five books of poetry: My Destination (forthcoming from Flood Editions and Carcanet Press); The Year the City Emptied; Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice; My Brother is ...

Creative writing lecturer and former Stegner Fellow Keith Ekiss teaches the popular sophomore Introductory Seminar ENGLISH 13Q: “Imaginative Realms,” which provides a hands-on exploration of ...

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you ...

Anja Notanja Sieger revives typewriter poetry by crafting poems live in public spaces. Setting up a vintage typewriter in public spaces throughout Milwaukee, poet and performance artist Anja Notanja ...

“The poet is the priest of the invisible“, this quote by Wallace Stevens encapsulates a lot in itself. However, times are changing, social media is a real deal, and who doesn’t want a bite of it. So, ...

Beloved educator, linguist, writer and poet Velma Pollard, known for her passion for Jamaica's Patwa language, passed away at her Kingston home on February 1 at the age of 87, leaving the regional ...

One day in 1979, Denise Levertov sat down to begin a poetic sequence she thought of then as an “agnostic mass.” She said later, in a 1990 CrossCurrents article, that her initial intent was only to ...

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