Labor Day has passed, Brooklyn’s beach tourists have left, and as locals settle in to enjoy some peace and quiet once again, a Coney Island-based writing organization is highlighting local writers ...

FLINT, MI--A group of University of Michigan-Flint students is planning on introducing people to downtown Flint through a unique lens: poetry. Creative writing professor Stephanie Carpenter said she ...

Coney Island is a New York City institution, best known to New Yorkers and tourists alike for its wide seaside boardwalk and nostalgic Wonder Wheel. This summer, local writers and their connections to ...

Aaron Angello first noticed the powerful relation between poetry and place around five years ago while working on his doctorate in English literature at the University of Colorado Boulder. “We read ...

From Maclay Flat to The M, from neighborhood bushes to hidden trails, kids are building a map of their favorite Missoula places, adding illustrations, poems and recordings of themselves reading their ...

Shortly after being appointed the city’s poet laureate in November, 2012, George Elliott Clarke learned the Toronto Public Library was devising a map that plotted books geographically depending on the ...

Listening to Clare Cavanagh speak of translation as an art is a reminder that translators must be as adept as poets at working with words, which, for all their imperfections, are the tools of their ...

Washington state’s poet laureate Claudia Castro Luna was shocked to learn that she had won a $100,000 national poetry fellowship last week. “(The Academy of American Poets Laureate) called me and I ...

Alex Skovron was born in Poland, lived briefly in Israel, and emigrated to Australia in 1958. His family settled in Sydney where he grew up and completed his studies. Since the early 70s he has worked ...