How can one hope to teach poetry when one’s students are “destimulated” and homogenized, and lack ethical sense, subtlety, and curiosity, let alone knowledge of history, or even an appetite for ...

Smith’s Boutelle-Day Poetry Center has a mission “to help make poetry something that resonates and is relevant to people’s lives,” says center director Matt Donovan. The colloquium, co-presented by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AMHERST — Amherst will once again become the center of a vibrant poetry community this month as the Emily Dickinson Museum hosts ...

Senior Director of Programs Brooke Steinhauser at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Amherst. Staff Photo/Daniel Jacobi II Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get ...

"Although a prolific poet, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. She preferred not to, and among the thousands of makeshift and fragile manuscripts of ...

I’m Ann Fisher-Wirth, the Poet Laureate for Mississippi 2025-2029, and I want to tell you about my new podcast series called “The Favorite Poem Project,” available through the Mississippi Arts ...