Kiya Vance is Corpus Christi's poet laureate. He is the sixth person and the first Black person to hold the title.

Themes of longing, loneliness and the power of love — romantic, familial and self-love — are constant throughout Maria ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Miller said he is honored to be Austin’s first poet laureate. It’s a two-year role through Austin Public Library with the goal of promoting poetry, literacy, and literary arts in Austin and serving as ...

Nearly 350 visiting secondary students and 33 teachers representing 13 junior high and high schools from across the state ...

That first poem was called “Photos of You ... I kind of just have to meet her where she's at and see her as like the precious person she is and, and try not to get too mad when she's so ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

To read Shukla is to read not a version of what is already known, but what is constantly being inscribed in and erased from ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Very rarely do people — if you’re not a painter — use paint or brush strokes to communicate basic things. Poetry is unique ...