If you're having a rough go of it this spring, don't worry. I've got 11 poetry collections to read that will reflect your inner world and open you up to a whole new outer world. These books are some ...

The Howe Writing Center's annual poetry contest, “Colors,” invited Miami writers to explore the multiple ways colors intersect with their lives. Presented with an array of colors, writers distilled ...

April showers bring May flowers, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. But for those of you disheartened by flowerbeds still too puddle-muddied to bloom, there’s no need to count the days ...

Spring Festival, also known as Lunar New Year, is one of the most anticipated, large-scale and celebratory seasons in Chinese culture. Around this time each year, families and loved ones gather no ...

Spring break has officially dawned for most high school students throughout the Yakima Valley, barely more than two weeks after the spring season itself officially broke on the calendar. This time of ...

NPR news poet and University of California, Berkeley, professor Tess Taylor has a spring roundup of poetry books that are all debut collections. And I'm Robert Siegel. Now, some new poetry. Tess ...

Each spring semester, the Howe Writing Center hosts a poetry contest In honor of National Poetry Month (April). For 2023, the HWC worked with University Libraries to promote the theme of “Writing Back ...

There are some big retrospectives (Bidart, Dove, Rich) on the slate this spring; mother (Notley) and son (Berrigan) drop new books; and one could do worse than just picking up anything from Copper ...

This spring poetry review is a spring poetry anti-review. It is all so subjective isn’t it? After a collection of poems has already made it through the jangly rites of agents and editors and elegant ...