The debut poetry collection "Rivers in My Veins" by Kara Briggs flows from her deep connections to Indigenous ancestors as a ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is spending $100,000 on a new digital ad that asks, “Are there any American poets in here? “American ...

ALTOONA, Pa. — Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has published a new collection of documentary poetry ...

Every time I go into my Devon workshop to begin weaving a coffin, I think about the person it’s for, especially if the family ...

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

I long for the girl who saw each new day as a chance,Not a wall. The girl who believed in a future full of promise.

The lines kept playing in my mind, like a song. I asked a few people, neighbors, street sellers, drivers, ‘What are you going ...

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 ...

Northwestern’s Black Poetry Society hosted its third annual “Speak On It” event Saturday evening, bringing together poets from across the Chicago area to share their work. This year’s ...

By McKinley Franklin Johnny Tillotson, the 1960s chart-topping and Grammy-nominated singer of “Poetry in Motion,” died Tuesday. He was 86. “It is with a broken heart that I write to let you ...

Publishing poetry on Instagram “goes beyond writing. On social media, there's a communication, a visual, an aesthetic and an audio aspect. Of course you must have a way with words, but you also ...

A study in the journal Scientific Reports suggests readers like AI-generated poems more than those written by poets like Sylvia Plath and T.S. Eliot. Nonexpert readers of poems from William ...