News & Politics Bestselling Novelist Jason Reynolds Remembers His First Open-Mic Night at a U Street Bar When He Was 16 A friend said, “I need to take you to where your people are.” First Person, Jason Reynolds, poetry, U StreetFebruary 10, 2023
Things to Do How to Celebrate the Winter Solstice in the DC Area Wednesday is the shortest day of the year. Stave off—or savor—the darkness at one of these area events. Candles, Midwinter, Nature, poetryDecember 19, 2022
News & Politics How the Folger Shakespeare Library Got a New Rita Dove Poem It will be etched in marble as part of a big renovation. Capital Comment, Folger Shakespeare Library, library, poetryDecember 8, 2022
Opinion DC Youth Poet Laureate Amiri Nash on How Poetry Can Help His Hometown Heal "To write poetry is to love. Love does not mean shying away from gun violence, insurrections, and tragedy." Essays, First Person, poetryApril 20, 2021
News & Politics Charlottesville Mayor’s Explicit Poems Stir Heated Discussion The compositions by mayor Nikuyah Walker are . . . unusual. Charlottesville, poetryMarch 26, 2021
Opinion Writing Through the Pandemic: Judith Viorst and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad President The children's author, poet, and longtime Washingtonian has a thing or two on her mind. Donald Trump, Judith Viorst, pandemic, poetryJuly 8, 2020
Opinion Writing Through the Pandemic: Poet Kyle Dargan on Coronavirus’s Painful Truths “There was a decade, maybe two, when the city seemed a good idea . . .” Coronavirus 2020, Kyle Dargan, pandemic, poetryJune 4, 2020
Opinion Writing Through the Pandemic: Poet E. Ethelbert Miller on What’s Just Beyond His Door The writer and literary activist speaks to this season that's like no other spring. Coronavirus 2020, E. Ethelbert Miller, pandemic, poetryMay 15, 2020
News & Politics | Opinion Send Us Your Quarantine Art! We Want to See Shutdown Life Through Your Eyes. To get you started, here are some photos, drawings, and poems about the pandemic from our staff. Coronavirus, Coronavirus 2020, COVID-19, IllustrationMay 5, 2020
News & Politics | Things to Do We Asked Rupi Kaur to Choose a Poem for Washingtonians to Read Right Now "It's about what's happening in our world today." Lincoln Theatre, poetry, Rupi KaurOctober 26, 2018
How the Folger Shakespeare Library Got a New Rita Dove Poem