Today’s nine-line iambic-pentameter poem, with its braided rhymes, meditates with compressed potency on a fleeting instant of innocent family happiness.

Forget National Poetry Month -- poets would be much better off if they learned to repackage their volumes of verse as self-help manuals.

Here, we explain what iambic pentameter is and how to speak in it, and list a few iconic Shakespeare performances to check out.

April is National Poetry Month and Tell Me More is inviting listeners to tweet original poems no longer than 140 characters to #TMMPoetry. Host Michel Martin launches the "Muses And Metaphor ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” reshaped English literature.

The Central Library is welcoming writers of all skill levels to its weekly workshops with poet and stage director Martin Jago. Taking place every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 ...

BAO PHI/ELIZABETH WEIR: Bao Phi, performance poet, national Poetry Slam finalist and published poet, and Weir, whose first book of poetry, “High on Table Mountain,” was published by North Star ...

The headline told me all I needed to know. “Poems about Davis sought for book.” And before you get any bright ideas, “Davis: More Nuts than Winters,” is a slogan, not a poem. “The Davis Poetry Book ...