Puerto Rican poet and playwright Miguel Algarín, who founded the groundbreaking Nuyorican Poets Café out of his Lower East Side apartment, and attracted an outspoken collection of artists and ...

IT IS usually dangerous for anyone whose gift is one art to attempt to follow another. The pitfalls of following poetry when your gift is prose are obvious enough to ...

ONE would feel happier about the future of poetry on the stage were it not for the defensiveness of those who proclaim it. Poetry had used the theatre and the theatre had used poetry for thousands of ...

American prose poetry—a tradition extending from Robert Bly to Lyn Hejinian—has finally come into its own. Although prose poems defy easy classification—they are, as the name indicates, neither ...

Messages of hope and inspiration despite despair are carefully crafted within the world of poetry and prose, with words flying off the page and into one’s imagination. To bring the page-to-life ...

COLUMBUS, Ind. — The Columbus Area Arts Council will have a special “Open Mic Poetry & Prose” event from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Hotel Indigo. Local poet Skye Nicholson will host the evening, ...

The importance of finding a few moments each week to seek gratitude and to reflect on what truly matters in life is more ...

Michael Adamchick’s book of poetry titled ’Reflections on Life, Love, Hope and Just Having Fun’ is being published. Aimee Dilger/The Times Leader FORTY FORT — Standing 6 foot, 3 and weighing in at 200 ...

Christopher Sheard (L) and Leah Karpel in Dear Elizabeth at Remy Bumppo Credit: Nomee Photography Through 11/17: Thu–Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2:30 and 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM; also Thu 11/7 2:30 PM (audio ...

The critic William Hazlitt (1778–1830), known best in his lifetime for his writing on Shakespeare, was a jack of all trades and a master of none too few, trying his deft hand at painting, philosophy, ...