As I listen to my friends sprinkle “Pookie” into conversation like a modern-day sonnet, I can’t help but wonder: Is this what poetry has become in the 21st century? Sonnets, ...

Writer Matt Hoisch, who has spent nearly a year interviewing poets for a project, describes the public good that comes from ...

Clement Clarke Moore is widely believed to be the author of “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” But the Livingston family of New ...

Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem.  I don’t remember ...

Leontia Flynn's 'Taking Liberties' is a rewarding collection, filled with poems that offer quiet wisdom, beautiful imagery ...

Falling in love is one of the best feelings in the world and you can’t deny that. With immense thrill and rapture, it is a ...

“I want people around the world to read Horie’s poems so that I can deliver her feelings to many people.” Two thousand copies were self-published. The book is priced at 500 yen ($4.50 ...

With a rich history in teaching and producing top-tier writing, the University of Iowa has gotten creative not just in the ...

After many years of prescribing poems as cures from the 1970s ambulance at festivals, conferences, hospitals and care settings, libraries and schools, the woman has opened the world’s first ...

His personality in the classroom peers through in his writings. He shares some of them during the poetry event. Some are dark ...

Knoxville-native Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9, but her legacy lives on. From new tributes, a documentary and the work she ...