Fanny Howe, winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize - presented annually by the Poetry Foundation "to a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition" - was in ...

Some of the Family Focus Poetry Open Mic participants of all ages gather after the event on Thursday night at Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center. More ...

In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe wrote "A Dream Within a Dream," a poem in which he may have reflected on the last days of his life. The author died that same year in Baltimore, Maryland, on Oct. 7 at age 40.

Rae Armantrout is a professor of writing in the literature department at UCSD and the author of ten books of poetry, including Versed, Next Life, which was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the ...

Mary Ruefle is the author of several volumes of poetry, most recently A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006), an art book of “erasures”, a variation on found poetry; Tristimania (Carnegie-Mellon ...