Spring is here, awakening the forsythia, crocuses and poets. Many of this month's winning poems deal with some aspect of spring, from its annual awakening to one poet's desire to die in the season of ...

Each spring semester, the Howe Writing Center hosts a poetry contest In honor of National Poetry Month (April). For 2023, the HWC worked with University Libraries to promote the theme of “Writing Back ...

Spring Festival, also known as Lunar New Year, is one of the most anticipated, large-scale and celebratory seasons in Chinese culture. Around this time each year, families and loved ones gather no ...

In Spencer Reece’s poem “Ayer,” from his new collection, Acts, the priest-poet talks about his bishop, who “had spent the day visiting churches/ and a gypsy that was begging for the host.” The worth ...

Memory serves as a bridge to the past and an entry point for thinking about countries and conflicts, in this season’s poetry collections. Berry’s companion volume to This Day is his first collection ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the flowers ...

I’m thinking of wishes to be wax, the changeability of passing sirens. The old curves of order in the snow, retaining themselves in rotting leaves. We all know life can smell like this, with death as ...

Twenty-five years ago I did my first interview with the Irish writer Nuala O’Faolain (1930-2008). Her bestselling initial memoir “Are You Somebody?” was just out in paperback and she stopped by WYSO ...

Spring Poetry Festival returns to the libraries across the region from March 9th to 31st, 2026. Visitors can enjoy a series of free activities including painting, poetry readings, musical performances ...