Poetry News

'Fl-Ghaqda u s-Sliem' , a collection of Maltese poems, has just been published in the United States.

"KEPLER was my North, my South, my East and Westa I thought Kepler would last forever: I was wrong." So lamented astronomer Geoff Marcy on discovering that the space telescope might have spotted its last exoplanet.

Compelling and fascinating, Bigger than Reality and Less than Fantasy is a meaningful collection of eclectic short stories that depict several facets of the human experience.

AUTHOR: Christina Gabbitas of Leeds Road Selby with illustrations for her new book.

Author Ron Boehm reflects on a lifetime of rich experiences in his timeless collection of poems, " Kaleidoscope View: Poems About Love and Life " . Written over the course of Boehm's lifetime, the poems in "Kaleidoscope View" offer pearls of wisdom about a variety of topics.

Isabella Kemp, left, Alice McDonald, Tessa Sternal, Lulu Levy, Katherine Humes and Amelia Kemp will have their poetry published in 'Young American Poetry Digest 2013.' GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.

You don't have to be sexy, edgy or even a mom to enjoy Thursday's boozy bookish bash at Babeland.

Norfolk's young poets are being encouraged to put pen to paper to celebrate the theme of friendship, and judge Prof Anne Osbourne knows the secret to a good poem.

The newest publication of Delaware Poetry Review ranges widely, from the author of 28 books to the first publication by a recent high school graduate.

KNOWN for breaking ground in many areas of contemporary dance, Durban's Flatfoot Dance Company uses the words of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote in its latest production, dubbed a "uniquely visioned choreopoem", History is a Home Address.

The Alley of Russian Poets is the brainchild of Uli Zislin, a Russian-born poetry collector and songwriter whose idea fell on receptive ears in 2003.

The annual contest, which has been conducted at least 11 years, is open to students in kindergarten through 12th grade in La Grande and Island City.

Arifa Akbar is deputy literary editor and arts writer at The Independent. She has been at the paper since 2001, and has previously worked as a news reporter and arts correspondent.

Friday, June 7, 2013, 7:00 p.m., featuring music from Bob Kerr and readings from Edmund Berrigan, Jessica Fiorini, Joanna Fuhrman, and the in from Pittsburgh, Lauren Russell .

People queued into the street to buy tickets for punk poet John Cooper Clarke and folk musician June Tabor as Hebden Bridge Festival announced its 20th programme.

Tween fashion designer Isabella Rose Taylor announced the upcoming launch of her latest Fall collection of hip tween and teen clothing and accessories.

This week's poem comes from a collection of sonnets, songs, pastorals, elegies and epigrams by the newly-rediscovered Elizabethan poet, Robert Sidney .

People can't seem to let go of the Divine Comedy. You'd think that a fourteenth-century allegorical poem on sin and redemption, written in a medieval Italian vernacular and in accord with the Scholastic theology of that period, would have been turned over, long ago, to the scholars in the back carrels.

Radio Taiwan International held its ninth annual Mandarin Speech Contest for Foreign Nationals' finale in Taipei yesterday, with Cleisha-Bernise Springer, an exchange student from Saint Lucia, taking away two prizes including overall champion.

Poet Katrina Vandenbarg will discuss the "Alphabet Not Unlike the World: Poems" and her other works at an adult poetry contest event at the Wescott Library .