A Wayne High School student who lost her brother in an accidental shooting a year ago transformed her pain into award-winning poetry. “On April 16th 2018 my little brother Darius Marcell Boone passed ...

New York City’s wordsmiths tweeted in droves last week as part of this year’s #PoetweetNYC Twitter poetry contest, and as promised, we’re publishing the five winning entries right here in Metro today, ...

The wait is over, the hour has come. In December, we asked you for verse on the theme of “Time”, for our annual poetry competition. And now it’s finally time to reveal the winner. But words like “now” ...

Sixth-grade student Jantzen Mahiai-Paleka from Kaunakakai Elementary School was awarded the grand prize in the 19th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poetry Awards on May 30 before a crowd of ...

Awards coordinator Melinda Gohn (right) presents a commemorative portrait of John Lennon to Roots School 5th grader Isla Harris for her winning peace poem, “Better Together.” — International Peace ...

In times of grief, we often turn to poets to describe the indescribable. Last Wednesday, writer John Keene put on a tuxedo and won a National Book Award for a new poetry collection that includes his ...

TRUMBULL -- Michael Cerulli's spirit is soaring these days, and it's not just because he loves flight. The Tashua Elementary School third-grader had his poem, "Planes," picked as one of the ten best ...

On a breezy recent October day, two Bates colleagues, professor Ian Khara Ellasante and multimedia producer Theophil Syslo, headed to the Androscoggin River in nearby Greene. There, they worked on a ...

The finalist opened up with an emotional poem he penned in an effort to reveal a new side of his personality to showrunner Ryan Murphy. By Lesley Goldberg Television Editor, West Coast The 19-year-old ...

Renewal. Rebirth. Hope. These are the things Spring so often stands for, especially now after our collective “winter of discontent.”* For the Howe Writing Center’s annual poetry contest, we seek ...