ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO)-- The city of St. Paul is looking for poets. Monday marks the kickoff of the 8th Annual Sidewalk Poetry contest. The city partners with Public Art Saint Paul to host the contest ...

In May 2016, Walt Curtis mailed WW a typewritten letter. “My Gawd, I just heard that Katherine Dunn died,” he wrote. “I am saddened, stunned. I always felt that she was indestructible.” The two ...

Give Giovanni Cerro any topic and he’ll write you a poem in a flash. What fuels the man behind the typewriter? Poet-for-hire Giovanni Cerro of St. Petersburg writes poetry for passing guests for free ...

The homeless can be seen on street corners, in alleys and on sidewalk grates, but their voices are seldom heard. Thursday night, those voices were what counted most, at a poetry reading at the Harold ...

Al-Safeek Jackson doesn't know who wrote the poem describing street life in Orange. Nonetheless, the first verse resonated with him two years ago when he was just 12-years-old, reading the following ...

Today’s Poem of the Day marks the one-year anniversary of this weekday feature at the revived New York Sun. As of today, we’ve brought our readers two hundred sixty poems, voices from the past and the ...

A COUPLE of decades ago almost every major American publisher published poetry. Scribner, Doubleday, Dutton, Macmillan, Atheneum, Liveright -- even McGraw-Hill, that bastion of business books. Today ...

TAMPA, Fla. - It's a Saturday afternoon at a crowded cannabis festival in Tampa. An electronic club remix of Billy Ocean's Caribbean Queen booms over the loudspeakers. Guests with pot leaf necklaces ...