Spurning the iconoclastic free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited ...

Virginia’s Lt. Gov-elect Ghazala Hashmi (D) holds a PhD in poetry and selected five poems for fellow Democrats that brought her comfort over the past year.

If you ever find yourself in need of a poem, I've got great news for you: Dial-A-Poem is back! These days, the arts of all ...

The result was Poems on the Underground, a project that turns 40 this year and has been copied in cities around the world.

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of ...

In the author photo for “Time Will Tell,” his newly collected poems, David Middleton greets readers with a pen in his left ...

Poetry events kicked up after a slight respite for the holidays. I attended the Blue Whale Reading two weeks ago, featuring ...

Poet Curt Curtin was well known in Worcester's poetry circles. His wife and collaborator, Dee O'Connor, talks about two ...

Caroline Kennedy's latest book comes with an agenda: to encourage a return to poetic memorization and recitation that both families and schools once considered routine. In Poems to Learn by Heart, ...

Love, Life and Mother Nature: Picture Book of Poems” (ISBN: 978-1834182124 released September, 2025 by Tellwell Publishing) ...

A once-promising writer learns some painful lessons in a tragicomic Colombian tale.