The beaming smile and laughter-creased face of Elizabeth Wojtusik on the Favorite Poem Project website tells it all. Undeniable emotion emanates even more as the Humarock, Mass., teaching consultant ...

Want to hear a surefire way to get 95 percent of readers to stop paying attention to your article? Just write the following: This is an article about poetry lectures. Yes, not just (shudder) poetry, ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Poet Judith Adams, a Humanities Washington speaker and Whidbey Island resident, will present “A Fierce Language: Falling in Love with Poetry” at the Jefferson County Historical Society ...

How lucky can we get? One of this nation’s most esteemed poets, Maxine Kumin, will fly here in April to top off the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series. And before we drop to our knees to honor her, ...

HAMMOND — Poetry readings, lectures and children’s theater highlight the third week of Fanfare, Southeastern Louisiana University’s annual fall arts festival. At 11 a.m. on Oct. 15, the first of three ...

The lectures taking place this week at Michigan State University include a panel discussion on the nature of inequality, an exploration of Psalm 137 in music (the one that begins “By the rivers of ...

A humanities education should focus on language, literature, and the arts, not on history and philosophy, said the Harvard University professor Helen Vendler, who delivered the annual Jefferson ...

During his Presidential Faculty Award Lecture, titled “Dwelling in a World of Poetry,” Professor of Islamic Humanities, History and Religious Studies Shahzad Bashir spoke Monday afternoon about the ...

The skis are gone from the front window of Onion River Sports in Montpelier — replaced by bikes — but the sport will live into the spring at the store through poetry. “The Joy of Skiing” by Lowell ...