Yorkshire-based Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has written a new piece for World Cancer Day, inspired by the experiences of people in the region. Laura Reid hears some of their stories.

A Doncaster mum has inspired Poet Laureate Simon Armitage for a new poem released for World Cancer Day.

A poetry competition has put railway journeys into words. Winners of the ‘Write on Track’ contest, organised by Rye Harbour Writers and the Marshlink community rail partnership, were celebrated during ...

Annie Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie's sister, who was the last family member to see Nancy Guthrie before she disappeared, has ...

As a trailer park guy who never knew his biological father and was desperate for a decent male role model, in Skip I saw a rough-hewn blue-collar man’s man who was well-read without being precious, ...

Caleb Cano is a student at RCTC taking a creative writing class. He was asked to write a poem based on his childhood.

It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.

The new Phillis Wheatley Forever stamp was designed by USPS art director Antonio Alcalá using an existing black-and-white ink-on-paper portrait by artist Kerry James Marshall. Her image draws from the ...

Brad Richard, a New Orleans poet and author of a new book titled "Turned Earth," will host an evening of poets reading their work at 7 p.m. Feb. 5 at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon ...

The novel takes seriously the question of whether you can read Proust and have a day job, circling the perennial tension ...

X.J. Kennedy, an award-winning poet, author, translator and educator who schooled millions of students through "The Bedford Reader" and other ...