Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

While reminiscing about poetry slam and the Worcester Poets' Asylum, I found poems I first heard years ago echoing through my ...

Hooray for poets and poetry! Arthur Sze, current U.S. Poet Laureate, has a book of poetry translations out this week called ...

The U.S. poet laureate’s new book, “Transient Worlds,” collects 23 poems in 13 languages to show the many ways a work can be ...

She says before she left, she was standing on her deck absorbing the morning when a line of poetry came that she had ...

Somehow, none of her poems has found its way into picture books — until now, as Caldecott honoree Melissa Sweet turns ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

The world is filled with magic just waiting to be discovered. Start exploring with these mesmerizing poems about nature.

Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the things we’re grateful for is a time-honored tradition, but it can be hard to put those feelings into words.

When Abel Debritto first started researching and writing about Charles Bukowski, he knew that the prolific underground poet, short story writer and novelist, who had written thousands of poems in his ...

Cadence Video Poetry Festival comes but once a year, and yes, it might fall on a glorious April afternoon with the sun out (emphasis on might) and cherry blossoms calling, but trust me on this—get ...