Gathered outside the Cambria County Library in downtown Johnstown on Tuesday, young poets recited a haiku they wrote for the ...

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

Samuel Waweru, alias Anthem Republiq, during the interview /JOYCE KIMANIIn the winding alleys of Mathare, one of Nairobi’s oldest and most densely populated informal settlements, creativity thrives in ...

Joy Harjo joined OU English professor Jake Skeets for a conversation about Native American writers and literature in Copeland ...

WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn and Susan Phillips explore the beauty of nature through poetry, featuring iconic poets like Amanda Gorman, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg.

Poetry is popping up in the Sharswood section of North Philadelphia. You can’t miss it. It’s right at your footsteps. Shed ...

In Binnie Kirshenbaum’s Counting Backwards, a wife must face a future without her beloved partner.

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Borough of Manhattan Community College student Stephanie Pacheco, the 2024-25 National Youth Poet Laureate, wrote a poem highlighting her experience at The City University of New York and her ...

It’s National Poetry Month, and I am excited ... often taking a noun and then using it as a verb. For example, “Now I’ll take you by the hand/hand you another drink/drink it if you can/can you spend a ...

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?