Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

Ballard, who wrote “on and off most of his adult life,” only turned to poetry at age 66. That being a mortality-aware time of ...

A series of poems by late Cornish Bard Hilary Keam is being published to support healthcare charity Cornwall Hospice Care. The charity said the collection had been produced by her husband of 61 years, ...

Mitchell's latest poem leans on what he refers to as his "suspect memory," which recalls a corner grocery store named Bates.

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime?

Nationally acclaimed poet and author Mary Mackey lives in Berkeley. Her latest collection of poems takes on a challenging ...

Margaret Atwood has been named the winner of the 2025 Lifetime Recognition Award by the Griffin Poetry Prize.

His work has been featured in the Philly Weekly, Metro Philly, Philadelphia Inquirer, Button Poetry, Voices in Power, and Def Poetry Jam, to name a few. Lindo’s creativity has expanded to include ...

Did you know Orlando has a poet laureate? Spoken-word artist Shawn Welcome went from homeless to being in high-demand. Buddy Dyer now seeks city’s third laureate.

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

Maybe it’s a backlash to “Obamacore” optimism—spoken word’s most recent “viral” period, after all, took place roughly between 2012 and 2017, when poems regularly racked up millions of views on YouTube ...