Cultural critic-poet-memoirist Saeed Jones has been announced as Decatur Book Festival’s keynote speaker. Novelist Angie Thomas will give the "kidnote" talk.

The Decatur Book Festival (DBF) will celebrate its 20th anniversary Oct. 3-4 with keynote speaker Saeed Jones and “kidnote” ...

As these credentials suggest, there is a widespread view, if not a consensus, that she is one of the major poets writing in ...

Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean ...

House of Anansi Poetry Bash We'll be celebrating the release of: The Seated Woman written by Clémence Dumas-Côté and translated by E. S. Taillon. Great Silent Ballad written by A. F. Moritz.

Pierre also inserts some delightful humour: at one point, “a misfired ray gun” blows up a millipede to the size of a city bus. “Aliens Visit the Islands” is one of the poems in Myth (House of Anansi ...

Wing Tek Lum is a Honolulu businessman and poet. His collection of poems, The Oldtimers, was published earlier this year by Bamboo Ridge Press. The poem is reprinted with permission of the author.

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Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics. Isabella Cotier By A.O ...

Here are six more poems that deal in different ways with giant monsters: 1. Beowulf. Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still ...

An "acrostic poem" is a poem in which the first letter of each line — read vertically — spells out a word or a message. The word “acrostic" comes from the Greek words “akros" (outermost) and “stichos" ...