This is the 30th anniversary of National Poetry Month and our community offers several opportunities to celebrate poetry.

At the dawn of the new millennium, UNESCO inaugurated the annual World Poetry Day. Its aim was to honour humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Since then, ...

Each birth month will see themselves in their selected poem.

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

A local preacher's bouts with anxiety in recent years set him on the search for an outlet that would allow the tortured soul to communicate his thoughts, life lessons and apprehensions without ...

Times Union staff, guests and readers shared their recommendations.

With so much to be savored in the literary genre right now –and perhaps you're recovering from Pride festivities– look inward with some inspiring poetry by LGBTQ writers. Like Atwood, Marge Piercy ...

Lue Morgan (pictured on the far right) a senior at Woodland Public Schools' alternative TEAM High School, recently organized a poetry slam as a way for them and their classmates to have an opportunity ...

Many, perhaps most, of us have spent this past year struggling to find ways to mourn the losses, weather the stresses and revive the pleasures stolen by the Covid-19 pandemic. We’ve monitored Zoom ...