INTO THE MYSTIC Rumi’s Caravan evolved from a spoken-word group assembled some 30 years ago in Sebastopol. (Photo courtesy of Rumi’s Caravan) Born in Persia in 1207 C.E., Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi ...

SAN ANTONIO – A firefighter’s job is grueling, but it’s not just physically dangerous. Seeing so much death and destruction is mentally and emotionally wearing. However, in a profession like ...

Edmonds Center for the Arts (ECA) invites poets of all ages from across the Puget Sound region to step forward and share their voices through WE SPEAK, an annual celebration […] ...

I hate sharing my poetry with people. I don’t mean that I get all sheepish and a little red in the face, but bashfully and begrudgingly do it anyway. No, I mean that I abhor it. It’s counterintuitive, ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. --A Golden Valley teenager is a national champion - because of the powerful way she chooses her words. Armstrong High School senior Stella Wright put together a poem about ...

When Peter Kahn became an English teacher at the Chicago-area Oak Park and River Forest High School, he was terrified of teaching poetry. "Poetry was my least favorite subject as a student, and my ...

Springfield Area Arts Council organizes the Poetry Out Loud Contest annually. Mark Turcotte, the Illinois Poet Laureate, visits to share how poetry is thriving because it's more than dead poets.

A 16-year-old poet inspired by the freedom the art form gives her to express her own voice beyond the borders of her native ...

Poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Dan "Sully" Sullivan, and club founder Peter Kahn have curated a new anthology celebrating the legacy of a... A high school spoken-word club changed students' ...