Josephine LoRe's childhood dream was to become a writer. Her first publication at age 12 appeared in the Toronto Gladstone Library collection. Josephine went on to win the Norma Epstein Prize for ...

Saskatchewan-born poet Karen Solie has won the prestigious T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for her collection "Wellwater." ...

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the world’s most generous poetry awards is both consolidating and expanding. Officials of Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize announced Thursday that they are combining their ...

Every October, when the Nobel Prizes are announced, readers receive a gift: we are reminded that literature is vast—vaster than empires, to coin a phrase. Chances are, the laureate for literature will ...

BUFFALO — Canadian "imports" will be featured at Just Buffalo Literary Center's genre-mixing "Big Night" series on Saturday. The event, which begins at 8 p.m. at the Western New York Book Arts Center, ...

Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. Monroe's "Open Door" policy, set forth in Volume I of the magazine, remains ...

Wellwater is a poetry collection which explores the intersection of cultural, economic and personal ideas of value, addressing aging, housing and environmental and economic crises. Celebrating ...