The power and importance of Horses, the seminal debut of punk-poet Patti Smith, still lingers five decades after its release.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Library of Congress has named Arthur Sze the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry of the United States for 2025-2026. Sze, the 25th poet to serve in the position, succeeds such recent poets laureate ...

Kwame Dawes is the Poet Laureate of Jamaica and the author of the collection “Sturge Town,” among other books. He teaches at Brown. “What is it I will have left when I leave, little but the milkweed ...

Months before Andrea Gibson, Colorado's renowned poet laurate, died of terminal ovarian cancer, they sat down for their final television interview on an episode of NBC Chicago's "It's OK to Ask ...

Colorado’s poet laureate, Andrea Gibson of Boulder, died at their home early Monday, July 14, from ovarian cancer. They were 49 years old. A post on Gibson’s Instagram account announcing their death ...

As of Tuesday, the new Illinois Poet Laureate is named Mark Turcotte and this is a portion of one of his poems, the beginning stanza of “Flies Buzzing.” “Mark Turcotte’s work reflects the complex and ...

When Joe Welsh stepped down as executive director of Friends of Sinners in October, he had no idea what the future would hold. “I just knew that God was calling me to do something different, but I ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely do ...

SCRANTON — Concerned residents took to social media recently to protest the removal of dozens of cat shelters from the woods on Allied Services’ property on the Morgan Highway this week. They say the ...

"The work we do at Film Independent has never been more necessary, and we will honor his legacy by continuing to build on the foundation he established," board chair Brenda Robinson said. By Lexy ...

“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this ...