“It’s one of the moments of Western consciousness,” says Frederick Seidel, 90, the author of more than a dozen collections of ...

For thousands of years, poetry has helped tell stories that shape the lives of generations. One local poet is about to head ...

Research also supports the idea that poetry activities can be linked to improved self-awareness and healthier functioning. By ...

On April 3 & 4, 2026 Hancher Auditorium held it's inaugural Stop/Time Festival, a multi-disciplinary, multi-venue festival ...

The Word In Black Racial Equity Fund, a component fund of Local Media Foundation, supports the work of Black-owned and operated local news media by providing critical journalism resources for Word In ...

Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize A poem about language, love, and processing distressing world events has won this ...

The goal of experiment 1 was to image, within the circuit for word processing, the areas activated by masked words. Brain activity was measured with fMRI and ERPs while participants viewed a random ...