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Editor's Note: This article has been updated to reflect a correction in Dawn Downs' professional experience. On... Rev. Chad Ripperger explores exorcism, demons, angels in speech The term 'exorcist' goes [...]

Colorado State University Police Department confirmed the death of an individual in Alpine Hall following... Breaking news: Police activity on campus, shelter in place recommended Editor's Note: This is an [...]

Byline: Lauren Drapeau A 9-year-old boy named Javier Zamora endured multiple life-threatening journeys across the United States/Mexico border in 1999 to reunite with his parents; today he lives to tell [...]

content'class='sno-story-body-content sno-no-cap'> MC hosted a multi-award-winning poet in the English and Reading Discipline Speaker Series early this semester. A local poet Taylor Johnson joined the list of distinguished presenters in [...]

Auburn University's Department of English is hosting the annual Robert Hughes Mount, Jr. poetry contest sponsored by the Academy of American Poets.The prize offered is $100, a membership in the [...]

Byline: Maddy Keyes, Gaylord News WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An Oklahoma student was one of five poets from across the nation to be honored by first lady Jill Biden at the [...]

content'class='sno-story-body-content sno-no-cap'> Ryan Sarbello The Irish Poet's event took place in Falvey Library this September. On Sept. 25 in the Speaker's Corner of Falvey Library, three Irish poets, Katie Donovan, [...]

Laura Newbern has been an associate professor of English and creative writing at GC since 2005. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, [...]

Dickinson has named U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón the 2022-23 recipient of the Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholars & Writers Program Award. During her upcoming residency at Dickinson, [...]

Byline: Emily Han Distinguished poet and award-winning author Patricia Smith engaged with students through a seminar discussion and poetry reading Jan. 24. Hosted by the Georgetown University Lannan Center for [...]

The Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards -- a series of awards open to undergraduate poets enrolled in a U.S. college or university -- are an achievement bestowed by the West [...]

Byline: Martin Dolan This Thursday, the Binghamton Center for Writers hosted its first event of the semester -- a Distinguished Writers Series reading from award-winning poet Adrian Matejka. Matejka is [...]

Byline: Jamie H. Nguyen Last Thursday, Nov. 11, the Distinguished Writers Series welcomed poet Ada Limón in a virtual reading of her works, both published and unpublished. This series was [...]

Insofar as I've experienced it, college combines two types of genuine learning: either people won't tell you what you're supposed to know so you have to get it yourself, or [...]

Award-winning poet and author Ocean Vuong will serve as this year's Humana/Doherty Library Series guest speaker. Vuong will read from his critically acclaimed novel, 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous,' during [...]

WEST LIBERTY, W.Va., April 7, 2021 -- Three published poets will take the stage at West Liberty University's Hughes Lecture on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Free and open to the [...]

Byline: Andrews McMeel Publishing KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Andrews McMeel Publishing is pleased to announce the upcoming debut poetry release Vulnerable AF from Grammy-nominated recording artist [...]

Byline: Halle Sembritzki Born and raised in the Central Valley, Anthony Cody entered Fresno State's Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program back in 2016. Cody's enrollment in the MFA [...]

Photo by: Danielle Vermette Tess Gallagher, poet, short story writer, and teacher, is one of Port Angeles' treasures, with many ties to Peninsula College. http://www.passthebuc.com/2016/11/empathy-is-the-most-important-thing-for-a-writer-to-have-poet-says/ She has been a consistently [...]

Written by Clare Kelly. Lucille Clifton's profound impact on the St. Mary's College of Maryland community still thrives today. Clifton's writing created strides in modern poetry. She won the National [...]

Shippensburg University welcomed award-winning poet, Nikki Giovanni, Feb. 27 in H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center in honor of Black History Month. SU President Laurie Carter introduced Giovanni to the [...]

English professor Mark Yakich did not always love poetry. 'I was a political science major in college, and I hated to read and write, poems especially,' he said. 'I always [...]

Gallery|3 Photoschloehonum.comPoet Chloe Honum has been named Best New Poet twice.Close Guilford College was honored to host the poet Chloe Honum for a reading of her works on Wednesday, Nov. [...]

Byline: Mia Glass < Leaderboard 2 p class='p1';>The National Poetry Series chose Cornell alumnus author Benjamin Garcia '11 as one of five winners in a prestigious competition that grants awardees [...]

October 9, 2019 Poet, musician and writer Joy Harjo will give a reading, followed by a book signing, Oct 22. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. [...]

Byline: Sarah Comiskey Poet and alumna Diannely Antigua '09. (Photo Credit: Savuth Thor) Northern Essex Community College is pleased to welcome back award-winning poet and alumna Diannely Antigua '09, who [...]

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Kwame Dawes is well-known for his busy life as a poet, editor, professor and constant award-winner. The poet, literary magazine editor and English professor was awarded [...]

Every year in April, to celebrate National Poetry Month, Southern University hosts a poetry contest in the honor of Pinkie Gordon Lane. Lane was an African American woman who was [...]

Byline: Sam Brodsky Last Tuesday, a long line of students wrapped from the doors of Finn House onto the sidewalk of Wiggin Street. The attraction was none other than three [...]

Byline: Benjamin Roark The first ever Latino recipient of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, Eduardo C. Corral, came to the Southern Miss campus on Oct. 3 to read from his [...]

Byline: Courtney O'Brien | Staff Writer The Mississippi Poetry Society, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, announced recently-retired Starkville Christian School English and Spanish [...]

Byline: Emma Larson Emma Larson | November 8th, 2017 In his youth, David Clewell did not enjoy the art of poetry. Now, almost 50 years later, he accepted the Webster [...]

Byline: Jordan Holman Photo courtesy: Julian Randall Master of Fine Arts candidate Julian Randall was awarded the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, which honors 'exceptional manuscripts by black poets of [...]

SOPHIE ROBERTSON | STAFF REPORTER | ssrobert@butler.edu Award-winning poet, Ocean Vuong, will present at the Schrott Center for the Arts on Oct. 2 as Butler's next speaker in the Visiting [...]

Byline: Rachel Whalen As English Professor Ishion Hutchinson recounted his past, his voice carried what he called the 'melody' of his home of Port Antonio, Jamaica. 'The spirit of Caribbean-ness [...]

Byline: Amit Anand The Los Angeles Times selected English and creative writing professor Thomas Sleigh as a finalist for the 1999 LATimes Book Prize in poetry for his anthology 'The [...]

Byline: Ashley Choo >The Singapore Literature Prize winner is on a roll, winning award after award for his poems and fictions. 12 years ago, Desmond Kon wrote down 3 wishes [...]

Byline: Erik Petrovich Yusef Komunyakaa graduated from the CSU College of Liberal Arts with a masters degree in writing in 1978. The pulitzer-winning author will return to CSU to accept [...]

Byline: MOLLY KEISMAN April 12, 2016 Arts and LifeNo Comments on Poet Tarfia Faizullah concludes Beck Lecture Series MOLLY KEISMAN Special to The Denisonian Students sat excitedly in anticipation of [...]

Byline: Angie DeRosa The 53rd Annual Wallace Stevens Poetry Program presented award-winning poet Carl Phillips Tuesday night at Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Center at the University of Connecticut. The [...]

Byline: Angie DeRosa The 53rd Annual Wallace Stevens Poetry Program presented award-winning poet Carl Phillips Tuesday night at Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Center at the University of Connecticut. The [...]

Byline: Ryan McCarthy English professor accepts poetry award in DC http://waywiser-press.com/hills.html Adjunct professor, Jaimee Hills' collection of poems, 'How to Avoid Speaking,' won the 10th annual Anthony Hecht Prize Ryan [...]

Byline: Sean Ogami It was a week full of poetry and the arts at Claremont Graduate University this past week with poet Angie Estes, recipient of CGU's Kingsley Tufts Poetry [...]

Byline: Riley Katz LSU Press Poet Anya Krugovoy Silver was presented with the Kennesaw State University Author of the Year poetry award for her book of poetry, 'I Watched You [...]

Meg Johnson never thought she would grow up to write poetry, but is glad she did. Johnson, lecturer in English, was recently awarded the 2015 Vignette Collection Award by Vine [...]

Byline: Sarah Rudlang Well-known Polish poet and Nobel Prize nominee Adam Zagajewski shared pieces of his work and discussed inspirations and challenges with St. Cloud State students and community members [...]

An OU freshman received a $500 award for poem she wrote modeled on a classical Chinese style. Elementary education freshman Nicole Emery was awarded the Newman Young Poet's Award for [...]

'Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet' will be etched in memory today with the presentation of the 2014 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award. The Pennsylvania [...]

The Brevard College English Department and the Grace Creech West Lectureship are pleased to welcome former North Carolina Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti to Brevard on Tuesday, October 21 at 7:30 [...]

Soft-spoken and tranquil are two words synonymous with Stephen Ratcliffe's personality and poetry, the latter of which was honored with a special award on campus. Ratcliffe received the Poetry Center's [...]