In celebration of its milestone 10th anniversary, Haverhill River Bards invite Merrimack Valley poets of all levels to submit ...

You can almost feel what it must be like to be the Hudson River. This poet has animated, even humanized, the presumably abiotic waters of the Hudson River, getting us to slosh back and forth with it ...

Here in April, celebrated annually as National Poetry Month, I’ve been wondering: Is there a truly great poem about the Mississippi River? The question first came to mind last December when a copy of ...

A playful group of poets from all over came together for the seventh annual Little River Poetry Festival, held under sunny skies at On the Water Outfitters last weekend. A record number of first time ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Poet Edgar Lee Masters in a photo from 1923 Do you remember anyone from high school? Maybe wild Johnnie Sayre or Amanda Barker, ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The late Stanley Kunitz began his second tenure as U.S. poet laureate in ...

Robert Adamson was born in 1943. His grandfather was a fisherman on the Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney; and that's where Robert has lived, on and off, for most of his life. A series of juvenile ...

DelRay Sanders could identify with concerns about the Red River flood this spring. In 2009, the Red edged close to his home in north Fargo. So he was among those out there sandbagging; his work was ...

Poet Gregory Orr rhapsodizes on a theme he has explored for nearly a decade: the “beloved,” the things we love. Of course, what we love can change over time, he says. “It can make you crazy by … ...