When I learned that Amanda Gorman had acquired a modeling agent and would be performing at this year’s Super Bowl, I could not help smiling. Gorman is the 22-year-old poet who caused a sensation at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Jesse Nathan (Jonah Reenders/For the S.F. Chronicle) In "One Question: Short Conversations With Poets," UC Berkeley ...

From The New York Times: "Why Poetry? Well, yes. Most books of poetry sell a couple of thousand copies, at best. So in a quantitative sense, what's the point of supporting it? With dollars or sense?

On a recent episode of the “Book Review” podcast, the former poet laureate Ada Limón made the case for why poetry matters and read two poems, including this one called “Instructions on Not Giving Up.” ...

Dana Gioia has visited the city of Chicago more than 70 times, but had not set gaze on the University until Wednesday night. “It is an astonishingly handsome and impressive campus,” he noted, after a ...