Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, shared an excerpt from “Proof,” an original poem he has written for Zohran ...

Godmothers Grow: The Sacred Circle with Diana Raab, Ph.D., a space to gather, reflect, and connect with kindred spirits ...

Musician Paul Kelly argues that poetry "enhances and heightens life". And if you're one of the many who find poetry confusing, intimidating or just plain boring, he gets it — but he wants to change ...

Code poetry is built on a simple premise: it is a single text that reads as poetry and executes as code. The new collection ./code –– poetry, published by Broken Sleep Books, brings a programmer and ...

CONGRATULATIONS! Eleventh grader Eesha Ande, a rising poet from San Antonio, is gaining national recognition for her work ...

From inaugural poems to the songs we listen to, poetry is all around us. We just have to allow ourselves to see it. Poetry can and has had a tremendous impact on our society. Still to this day, I ...

In 1968, Margaret Ackerman of the University of Arizona authored a paper for The English Journal in which she included a summary of what poetry meant to most of her students: “sentimentality, ...

I like poetry. Maybe it’s because of the abundance of Dr. Seuss books that were placed on my shelf as a kid, or maybe because of the painfully awkward and yet somehow still magical reading of “Romeo ...

The short answer is “no,” of course. To state the obvious, things can share certain attributes and not be the same sort of thing, and asking whether rap is poetry has always struck me as a useless ...

It is difficult to imagine a world without movies, plays, novels and music, but a world without poems doesn't have to be imagined. I find it disturbing that no one I know has cracked open a book of ...