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 ...

I started writing poetry when I was eight years old and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that doing so saved my life then and at many other times. Why did I start writing poetry? Frankly, I ...

It turns out that Blazersedge.com, a Trail Blazers' fan website, is conducting a poetry contest. The finalists are listed on the site, but here's one of the entries: The flowers of my garden. Between ...

In the heart of Western New York, the Ground and Sky Poetry Series stands as a testament to the power of poetry to create connection, foster witness, and build community. Now, as the Poetry Series ...

[The bulk of Timrod’s prose papers are scattered through the newspapers he was associated with, and have never been collected. The present paper has had an existence even more obscure. His immediate ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely do ...

Javed Akhtar highlights the diminishing value of literature in education and underscores poetry's vital role as society's voice. Despite challenges posed by technology and social media, Akhtar ...

Jamal Cadoura has been posting poetry on Instagram since 2015. The 25 year old Michigan-based writer is known online as @Writingtoinspire, and typically posts simple black text over a white background ...

In Trickster Feminism, Anne Waldman continues her lifelong project of speaking to power through poetry. Waldman has written through the post-2016 protests, marches and resistance, amid losses to the ...

While the term “Instapoetry” may be unfamiliar to most, I assure you it is more familiar than you think. You’ve likely seen books of it cluttering the shelves of Target, or — as the name suggests — ...