Poetry

Benjamin Bagby has captivated audiences around the world with his performances of the Old English epic Beowulf. Watch Bagby's recent performance in WOSU’s Performance Studio.

Poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Dan "Sully" Sullivan, and club founder Peter Kahn have curated a new anthology celebrating the legacy of a Chicago-area high school's spoken word club.

Cardell Belfoure had been writing poetry for several years before joining the ID13 Prison Literacy Project while incarcerated at Grafton Correctional Institution in Grafton, Ohio.

Before Jonathan Young began writing poetry through the ID13 Prison Literacy Project, he spent a long time trying to "fit in" with others around him.

Poetry is having a moment during the pandemic, and Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo said the surge of new talent may bring about a…

A “skinny black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother” wowed the nation on Inauguration Day with her poem “The Hill We Climb.” After President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, the country’s first Youth Poet Laureate, became the youngest person to read a poem at an inaugural ceremony.

Smith says she started writing Keep Moving as her marriage was ending. It began as a series of affirmations she wrote for herself on Twitter; she found that the posts were helping other people too.

Governor Mike DeWine has picked Kari Gunter-Seymour to be Ohio’s new poet laureate. In the middle of a pandemic and nationwide protests, Kari Gunter...

Saeed Jones is used to being away from home.“In 2012, I circled the globe by myself in 8 months. I’ve lived all over the country and I think I just know…

An event this weekend celebrates the more than 100,000 sub-saharan Africans that live in Columbus. The Columbus African Festival will feature food,…