Missouri recently opened nominations for its next poet laureate, a writer to succeed Springfield's David Harrison. Surveying ...

In a year when the arts have been stormed by political forces, the literary arts remain strong and dry, writes Arrowsmith ...

Christopher Nolan, the renowned director of Inception and Interstellar, as well as the Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer, is now branching out into ancient mythology with his upcoming project: a cinemati ...

Most assignments in college are not relevant,” he told me. “They’re hackable by AI, and I just had no interest in doing them.

The finals of the Poetry Out Loud high school poetry competition take place in Washington, D.C., this week. NPR asked some of this year's competitors about how to master a poem.

The NEA is the federal agency that funds the arts and art education across the country. It provides grants to nonprofit ...

Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.

To celebrate National Poetry Month in April, we invited 5 Washington Post photographers to capture nature, and invited 5 ...

“A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” Rashid Johnson’s knotty retrospective that just opened at the Guggenheim, draws its title from a work by Amiri Baraka. Like that activist writer, the Chicago-born ...

And these are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use ...

As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's theme, May Day - read The Laying Hen by Rosamund Taylor below.