It is a part of the city’s push for more public art that brings resident’s ideas and artwork to life ... poem about me getting on a two-wheel bike for the first time when I was six years old.

Discover Nancy Foster, whose 100 year old work is brought to life in a new walking trail. The poet Nancy Foster lived and ...

This weekend showcases the endless possibilities in Iowa City from the Mic Check Poetry Fest to special film screenings ...

L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s hope: to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, b ...

Slow Wreckage is Crooker’s tenth book of poems. She has always been a sharp noticer, especially of the natural world and the visual arts. Reading her poetry feels like putting on a new pair of glasses ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right ... He’ll never be the life of the party, and you may wonder why anyone invited him in the first place.

When I was a ninth-grader growing up in Encanto, I used to struggle with poems that just wouldn’t work out. After a whole day ...

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha discusses the heart-wrenching moments that inspired his new book, “Forest of Noise.” ...

Tucsonan Powers, a former laboratory biologist, has written a number of science-based picture books for kids but had never ...

The old crowd knew their place. Don’t say a word. Quick now. The table’s free. Good evening, ladies. Do ignore us. Thank you. Sean O'Brien's most recent collection of poems, Embark ...

Little Words reads like an honest cathedral of letters, where human emotions are assembled. Reading this book is a journey.

The massive 800-page collection includes messages written by the Nobel Prize winner around the time Lawrence WIlson was ...