Jul. 7—As spring showers slowly leave the forecast and make way for clear, warm days this month, the North Coast is a little closer to the happy days of summer. As we dust off our outdoor gear and ...

Last year, as the scorching summer set in, we offered our readers unexpected relief from the heat. Admittedly, it was more of an aesthetic, even darkly comic relief, rather than a physical one. It was ...

Philadelphia’s poet laureate position is both an honor and a civic duty. The selected poet is expected to perform certain tasks to promote arts in the city, but the Free Library of Philadelphia, which ...

Poet Nikki Giovanni shares a story and a poem related to her summer routines to an... Poet Nikki Giovanni shares a story and a poem related to her summer routines to an audience at the University of ...

All too soon, the produce aisles at my local grocery store will be full of apples and pears. Those will get me through the winter well enough, but for a few more weeks, I am bingeing on summer fruit — ...

Hosted by a group of volunteers and poets, Boston Poetry Marathon is returning to an in-person format for the first time since 2019. The roughly 120 participants at this three-day event have 7 minutes ...

If you refuse to believe it ends badly, return to 6. 9 At the end of the summer, you wrote bad poetry. Inexplicable, s—ty, broken-down poetry that couldn’t even be called poetry. It was humiliating.

You may have heard of a backyard summer cookout, but have you heard of a backyard floricanto? “Flor y Canto” is the Aztec expression for poetry, with its literal translation in Nahuatl being “in ...

Philadelphians will witness the magic of a haiku when it rains this summer as unique water-activated poetry installations pop up across the city. MORE CULTURE Kids at Play indoor playground and ...