Julia Morris Paul was chosen as the town’s first poet laureate at a competition sponsored by the Manchester Arts Commission on May 2. Paul, 62, has lived in Manchester for nearly 30 years. She ...

My earliest memory of Manchester is... Aged about eight, travelling with my mum on a smoky bus from Denton to Ardwick Green, walking past the Apollo through to the eye hospital on Oxford Road. I had a ...

"I felt quite calm actually, when it came to do it. "It was a privilege." The poet, originally from Tameside, said the poem was previously commissioned by a charity called Forever Manchester. "There ...

Manchester Center - The Poetry Salon celebrates its 3rd National Poetry Month Anniversary at Manchester Community Library’s Café Commons on Friday, April 27, at 6:30 p.m. Writers, listeners, and ...

Poets entering Peterborough Poetry Project’s three recent poetry contests sent their poems from California, Texas, Florida and other states as well as from New England. Student/poet Ruthie Zolla from ...