Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...

April showers bring May flowers... and May diplomas! In honor of those graduating from high school/college/obedience school ...

Young people are learning life skills like public speaking and memorization through a national poetry competition. We speak ...

Home is inside all of us, we just need to know how to dial in. It’s the takeaway from Rhys Campbell’s most recent collection ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Marilyn Singer, who divides her time between Brooklyn, New York and Washington ...

By ROBIN SHEPARD Times Correspondent Joyce Dale keeps her iPad close at hand in the event she is visited by the muse. It’s a ...

Some flowers are red; some flowers are blue. We have funny roses-are-red poems to share with your entire crew. Roses are red, violets are blue; we love us some funny poems, how about you?

Franklin Abbott’s newest book, “My Ordinary Life,” is more than a collection of story poems. It’s a quiet reckoning with the extraordinary weight of recent years. With a gentle yet unflinching voice, ...

Inspired by (among others) the DeafBlind poet and essayist John Lee Clark, Colgate unfolds a welcome array of poems about his own queer, complicated, sociable life in New Haven and Toronto ...

Her poems are born from life’s rawest corners—heartache, grief, faith, hope, healing, and love. These themes run through each of her books, yet no two feel alike. They speak in different tones but ...