Poet in Residence with Poetry Ireland Anne Tannam welcomes us to this year's Poetry Day Ireland celebrations... Why do we turn to poetry? Ask a hundred people and you'll get a hundred answers ...

Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay penned "If We Must Die" in response to white mob attacks on blacks in cities across the country in 1919.

People who live with chronic illness often experience a tension between wanting to hide their illness and being fully known. Learn more about how to work with this conflict.

Christine Cole met her now husband 10 years ago on a plane. When he proposed to her nine months after meeting, she also proposed to him.

We asked for your original poetry reflecting on 2024 — the ups, the downs, the moments of joy and the hardships — and many of you shared your work with us.

We got engaged without seeing each other and without an actual ring. We exchanged photos only days before we met in person in 2001, and we are still together.

Decades ago, my friend Caetlin received a peculiar assignment from the poet Robert L. Hass, who was then her undergraduate literature professor. He instructed each student to memorize three poems ...

How memorizing poetry can expand your life I was always a reluctant reader of poetry, but memorizing a poem every week gave me a new understanding of myself.

Does mental illness beget great poetry? Many poets – celebrated and obscure, from antiquity to the present – have, to varying degrees, navigated issues of mental health.

Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami and the Jim Crow era. Tom Dolphens illustration. Tom Dolphens Star file illustration I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about ...