“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

Men, I guarantee you that regardless if you’ve been married 40 years and never acknowledged Valentine’s Day once in all that ...

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Join in for a “Poetry Share,” a supportive and noncompetitive way to present your work or simply enjoy the words of local ...

If the solar system held a poetry slam, each planet would present its unique poetic style. Mercury delivers rapid-fire verses ...

We deserve to be on the big stages the way stand-up comedians are,” said Des Moines poet Kelsey Bigelow. “We’re using our stories and our voices. It’s just in a […] ...

Gorman cautions parents to be awake to the rise in book bans across the country, which will primarily impact children of middle and low-income families.

Finger Lakes Community College professor Trista Merrill's love of words leads to successful scholarship program.

You can’t force poetry. The words must be born when they are born. They’re all born together like strings of paper dolls ...