Melissa Ferrer Civil found community, and a path toward better mental health, through poetry. Now, she’s spreading the good ...

Acclaimed Kannada poet and playwright H S Venkatesha Murthy, widely known as 'HSV', died at a private hospital here on Friday, sources said. Murthy was 80. He had been suffering from age-related ...

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

Robert Raymond Cook was executed roughly 65 years ago after being found guilty of killing his father Raymond Cook while being ...

Dorcey began her political activism in the 1970s, having returned to Ireland after living in France and England. Having met other queer people abroad, Dorcey was struck by the repression that ...

Ode to Bermuda is Hilary Lawrence’s love letter to the island she’s called home for nearly 20 years. She wrote it ahead of ...

Efforts to ban books in schools and remove them from libraries usually happen at the local level. Trump has made them a focus ...

WHEELING — West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman has set forth a new “chapbook” illuminating the current state of the world and celebrating West Virginia. “Dispatch From The Mountain State” is ...

That would be madness! And yet... I write poetry and have a great time doing it. Now, I’m trying to get more kids to do the same thing. If that seems ridiculous, remember that I taught a ...

You may even find your poetry community at home! If you have children, consider reading poetry with them (young ones may enjoy Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky). Lean into the styles your group ...

“How Elegant the Elephant: Poems About Animals and Insects” by Mary Ann Hoberman, illustrated by Marla Frazee: These are my favorite kind of children’s poems: rhyming with a bouncy cadence ...