In this week of the Presidential Inauguration, it must be said that poetry serves another function when deployed in public: it is classy, it adds tone and the aura of high-minded literary prestige.

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re closing up our poetry inbox. All month, we’ve invited people to send us their own original poems, responding to a prompt each week. We’ve heard from ...

Fourth-grader Cade Maxwell stood confidently before a room filled with his peers from First Odessa Christian Academy and their parents and began to read a poem from his self-authored book, “The Buddy ...

One night in the fall of 2002, I was out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant with the poet Derek Walcott, who had been my professor in the graduate poetry program at Boston University. Another of my ...

HAGERSTOWN -- Crystal Brown's devotion to poetry took her into the war zone. Now she brings her poetry, stories and writing lessons to area children. It was a slightly overcast summer day, and kids ...

Swimming Lessons, out now, captures "different emotions, different heartaches and different loves I've experienced at different times," Lili Reinhart tells PEOPLE Lili Reinhart can’t keep quiet. “If I ...

What prompted the idea for the course? I’ve often found poetry to be a good way to teach law students about the power of particular details, as well as the efficient elegance of compact language. At ...

With minimal staffs and tiny budgets, independent poetry presses exist on the margins of the publishing world. But that fringe existence allows them to take wild risks and create new models for ...

Come See Me in the Good Light,” a documentary about poet Andrea Gibson’s final days, offers a portrait of transformational ...

IBM design researcher Meghan McGrath shares how working in literature–including a stint at a poetry journal–helped her better serve users. Meghan McGrath: On paper, it would look almost cartoonishly ...