PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- If you need a pick-me-up, Elixr Coffee offers a lift for your body and soul with a public poetry project called Heart on Your Sleeve at their Center City Philadelphia location.

Led by poet, filmmaker, and curator Vasiliki Katsarou, the event will unfold through a series of immersive, weekend-long ...

On rainy days, Reading’s sidewalks will shine with the creativity of young writers from the area. Haiku written by local children as part of the Rain Poetry project by nonprofit PA Humanities will ...

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The tone was set early. It was afternoon at the Poetry Project’s New Year’s Day Marathon, the 50th since the event’s debut in 1974. After an hour and a half or so of poems, the day’s topic had come ...

Detroit's Jessica Care Moore is one of 23 poets nationwide awarded a 2025 Poet Laureate Fellowship by the Academy of American Poets. She plans to use the $50,000 grant to launch literacy workshops, ...

The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press was recently awarded a $250,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support the curation and stewardship of poetry archives related to ...

Boxing brothers Amir and Haroon Khan have added heavyweight support to Manchester Metropolitan University’s Mother Tongue Other Tongue project, a multilingual poetry competition that highlights and ...

Lansing poet laureate Ruelaine Stokes visits the Tollgate Drain Wetlands. Winning entries in her We Are Water poetry contest will be displayed there. The poet laureate of Lansing, Ruelaine Stokes, was ...

Alison Pelegrin presents on Lifelines Poetry Project at the Louisiana Arts Summit. As Louisiana Poet Laureate, Alison Pelegrin, writer in residence at Southeastern Louisiana University, is Louisiana’s ...

As Louisiana Poet Laureate, Alison Pelegrin, writer in residence at Southeastern Louisiana University, is Louisiana’s acting literary ambassador. She was named for her two-year tenure in 2023, and ...