When Shane McCrae decided to be a poet as a teenager in the early 1990s, language became both hope and tool, a way to navigate the world while thinking through his life on the page. His poems wrestle ...

A self-described “occasional poet,” John Thomas Wood finds inspiration wherever he happens to be. On a recent sunny afternoon, the Point Loma resident was hanging out at the beach. He often can be ...

Life can be an unforgiving and exhausting journey — from natural disasters happening halfway around the world to something closer to home like the loss of a beloved pet. While these tragedies are ugly ...

Editor's note:This story contains poems with curse words. To celebrate National Poetry Month — which wraps up today — All Things Considered spoke with three poets, Hanif Abdurraqib, Yanyi, and Franny ...

It is generally assumed that the literary creative process, especially poetic creation, starts with inspiration. Popular descriptions of the poet creating a poem usually conjure up an image of a ...