A poetry collection. That could happen, right? Instead of pawing for your doomscrolling device, you could instead pick up a ...

An after-school poetry club will travel to the Globe Theatre in London to pick up the Special Award.

Evanston Public Library hosted a Poetry Playspace event, inviting participants to learn about poetry and write together, in ...

Set against ecological crisis, political violence, and technological change, these collections grapple with the search for ...

There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets – often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Meanwhile, the Lincoln ...

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 ...

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 ...

The poet Diane Seuss and I began a recent conversation by talking about the burdens of companionship—or, at least, how those burdens are manifested through affection for a pet. Seuss lost her dog Bear ...

Culturally, poetry is used in varied ways. Haikus, for example, juxtapose images of the everyday, while lyric poetry expresses the personal and emotional. Similarly, poets themselves come in a range ...

National Recitation Competition 2026: The top 10 participants will receive Certificate of Excellence and all valid ...