Emily Jungmin Yoon sat down with The Maroon to talk about her debut poetry collection, trends in contemporary poetry and more. The interview has been transcribed below. On writing across cultures I am ...

Poetry had never before brought me so much laughter, nor had it ever been written in real time before me. I had always wondered about that — about what it would be like to speak-write a poem or short ...

Springfield Area Arts Council organizes the Poetry Out Loud Contest annually. Mark Turcotte, the Illinois Poet Laureate, visits to share how poetry is thriving because it's more than dead poets.

Caballero giving the first digital poetry performance at Art Genève, hosted by Giga/UNICEF. Photo: Marc Bader, 2025 The biggest downside to being an editor when you launched your career as a writer is ...

Growing up in D.C.’s barrio, Elexia remembers a vibrant, tight-knit Dominican community. Carolina Meurkens Afrolatinidad: Art & Identity in D.C. is an interview series highlighting the vitality of the ...

The poet laureate of the United States—an official appointed by the Library of Congress to promote the reading and writing of poetry in America—seems an odd and irrelevant functionary for a Britney ...

We talk to Aneta Kamińska, poet, translator, and promoter of Ukrainian poetry, about Ukrainian artists who are fighting not only with their pens but also with weapons in hand.

When Caleb “The Negro Artist” Rainey first came to the University of Iowa, he said he felt overwhelmed trying to find his voice as a Black writer in a predominately white literary community. The poet ...

At Poetry/Cabaret, the poetry is part of a broader evening of entertainment in which each performer is offering their take on a particular theme. So there's a sense of context and there's continuity, ...

Jessie Reyez didn’t enter the music industry to make friends — but throughout her decade-plus-long career, she’s formed familial connections. Known for wearing her heart on her sleeve, Reyez bares it ...

Toronto’s largest spoken word series took home first place after a week-long poetry competition taking place in Montreal, Quebec. It’s the first win for TPS since the festival began seven years ago.