Evan Wang, a senior at Upper Merion High School, wants to see young people engage with poetry off the page and in everyday ...

Allen Ginsberg's iconic poem 'Howl' begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical.

The poem reveals the mind-numbing conditions and physically exhausting jobs that were relentlessly inflicted on prisoners in ...

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

Want to live a fuller life? Start by facing the one thing you’ve been taught to fear the most—death—and discover how ...

The Oscar-winning director of 'The Windshield Wiper' talks us through his stunning new short for the upcoming game 'Marathon.

Neighborhoods in many cities resist stadium development proposals. Poet LindoYes reflects on a recent case in Philadelphia.

The brain trust met again and got on the subject of poetry. Poetry wasn’t the beginning of this meeting. It seems that one of ...

By embracing the messages conveyed by these long and short poems. Earth Day poems are more than just catchy lines; they are calls to action, and expressions of hope for a greener future.

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...

If reading short stories offered an efficient ... reality seemed inescapable and inalterable. But I could change how I thought within it. Take the poem “The City Limits,” by A.R. Ammons.

And he wrote a whole series of wonderfully short, aphoristic poems. They're very brief ... of snow from a hemlock tree has given my heart a change of mood and saved some part of a day I had ...