The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming ...

Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

What does war look like from the inside? Ask Congo’s young slam poets.

On March 10, 2025, the Wisconsin Book Festival hosted the University of Wisconsin Creative Writing Department’s six masters ...

Patrycja Humienik’s debut poetry collection, “We Contain Landscapes,” explores chronic illness, climate change, borders and ...

“I knew very young that I would teach. I assumed I would become a school teacher, but poetry was the wild card that popped up. It was like, ‘You’re gonna teach, but you’re gonna use this ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

Author, poet, and philosopher David Whyte believes in poetry. Specifically, he believes in its ability to rekindle emotions often buried or denied — from anguish and death, to joy and wonderment.

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

"Who are you trying to strangle? And what god are you serving?" Hertgen wrote in one poem published to Facebook in September 2024. "I can see the knives sharpening. I can hear the arrows whizzing.