I told my students that I don’t want to pretend that we don’t know what it is and aren’t tempted to use it,” writes.

America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker. While Bates’ ...

Teachers can have students create comics based on poems to better understand their themes and spark meaningful conversation.

Inspired by the cleansing water of spiritual baths, aja monet's new poetry collection "Florida Water" explores ways a poem can rinse, unravel and reveal hard truths.

The NEA grant gave voice, honor and power to an audience of poets who nurtured the gift and returned it to society. May it be ...

Yubaraj Nayaghare is a Nepali writer and essayist known for his travelogues and subjective essays. Born in Ilam in 1969, he started writing poetry at age ten and has since published 22 books, ...

Derek Sheffield sat down with The Seattle Times to talk about the role of poet laureate, his love of language and what he’s ...

Ashutosh Agnihotri's 'Main Boond Swayam, Khud Sagar Hoon' is not merely a collection of poems; it is a luminous voyage into ...

By itself, a poem can’t fix injustice, prevent violence, or erase mistakes we’ve made. But it can “hold you and scold you at the same time,” Daughtry writes; it can “make you float . . . introduce you ...

Johnny Tillotson, the singer behind Sixties hits “Poetry in Motion” and “It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin’,” has died at the age of 86. Tillotson’s wife, Nancy, confirmed the news in a ...

National poetry month was started in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, and encourages people to pay attention to and enjoy poetry. Here are some ways to celebrate around D.C.

Poetry and feminism have always been intertwined but in recent years, many new feminist and queer voices have emerged and found space to express themselves. For World Poetry Day, we take a look at ...