“Narrating the Saints: Paulinus of Nola and the Beginning of Verse Hagiography.” Michael Roberts, Robert Rich Professor Emeritus Wesleyan University “Prof. Roberts will explore the Natalicia (Birthday ...

On Jan. 17 William Stafford would have been 96 years old. His son, Kim, celebrated by attending a Stafford birthday event and leading a writing workshop. Kim Stafford started by using Garrison Keillor ...

OpenRoad Poetry has put together an afternoon of poetic, lyrical, acoustic, and mixed genre performances for Rescue Poetix Birthday Poetry Showcase and Open Mic Fundraiser at The Box Cafe in Jersey ...

Run while you still got legs. I live in what I would describe as a creepy town of zombies. Worthwhile experimentation in contemporary poetry suffers the same fate as the service in tourist restaurants ...

Poet Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday is Friday, May 31, and there are several ways that locals might choose to celebrate. Of course, they can pull a volume of Whitman off the shelf and turn to a poem ...

It was a very happy birthday for Morgan Blackgoat. The Thunder Mountain High School senior won the Poetry Out Loud Juneau Regional Competition on her 18th birthday. Poetry Out Loud is a national ...

Everyone has a birthday which they meet with varying levels of joy and ambivalence each year. Birthday Poems, edited by Jason Shinder (Tales from the Couch: Writers on Therapy), underscores this fact ...