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 ...

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

For poetry fans, it will be the best of times and the versed of times in Long Beach on April 5-6. The Long Beach Public Library and the literary group Shore Poets will host the third annual "It's ...

It's National Poetry Month and we are highlighting some Chicago-area winners of the Pulitzer Center’s Fighting Words Poetry Contest. That contest is open to students in Kindergarten through 12th ...

Is it too soon to call it O, Broward? O, Miami, the long-running literary festival that puts random acts of poetry into public spaces every April, is adding its lyrical touch to a brand-new beer ...

Poetry Moment Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally ...

I thought maybe I was having heat-related hallucinations. I had begun writing poetry to work through my emotions around the hard parts of my life — not just teenage crushes, but also suicidal ...

What came out? Poetry. From "Fragments of Me" They are everywhere. The fragments of me. In the closet, in the drawer, in the ceiling looking down. The fragments of me are all over the land.

I am writing to you with a special poem that I have composed to commemorate the 15-year anniversary of the passing of Ernie Harwell, beloved voice of the Detroit Tigers. (Editor's note ...