When Steffani Fletcher launched Hope at Hand Inc. in 2009 to provide art poetry therapy to local organizations and youth in crisis in Jacksonville, she didn’t have any specific goals in mind. “This ...

For members of the Southern Minnesota Poets Society in Mankato, poetry is an opportunity to take personal, authentic, even daily and seemingly mundane experiences and turn them into something vivid ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — According to the Center for Disease Control, youth violence is the leading cause of injury and death for teenagers and young adults between the ages of 15 to 24. Various groups ...

overhear everything. And until August, each staff member was juggling such a big workload that poets who submitted work to the organization’s highly respected and influential magazine, Poetry, often ...

DarkMatter, a South Asian poetry duo, performed with a group of students from Ohio State on Friday night. DarkMatter is a New York City-based poetry performance group, made up of Alok Vaid-Menon and ...

Members of the Yetzirah Philadelphia chapter. (Courtesy of the Yetzirah Philadelphia chapter) Yetzirah, described as “a hearth for Jewish poetry,” is a national nonprofit organization aimed at, as its ...

Has a poetry group for you. “Anyone interested in poetry or poets at any stage in their writing are welcome to join SEMNP,” says Rochesterite Susan McMillan, a coordinator for Southeastern Minnesota ...

The Novato-based International Association of Sufism will award $250 to the winning poet in its Songs of the Soul Poetry Contest, which takes place this month. The group will accept poems from high ...

GARY, Ind. (AP) — A community group is planning to dress up a vacant high school building in Gary with poetry. The Gary Poetry Project is seeking poetry submissions from Emerson High School graduates ...

Before teaching Persian at the University, Michelle Quay, visiting lecturer in language studies, spent several years working on a Persian poetry group at the University of Cambridge alongside Annabel ...