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.

In his 1974 anthology Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914–1945, Jerome Rothenberg introduced American poet Bob Brown to those of us of a certain generation, ...

On January 17, 2019 the world lost Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and national luminary, Mary Oliver. Oliver's brilliant prose is direct and inspired, linking together the human and natural world. Her ...

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 ...

Poetry can be a form of self-care. Poets such as Fariha Róisín, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and even Lana Del Rey have all touched on the healing power of the art form. Over the course of the pandemic, actress ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a semester in college I tried out being a poet. I had not written many poems before, and have hardly written one since, but I sent in an application to the English department and found myself, one ...

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 ...

Laguna Beach makes art look easy, but city officials learned over the last year that one form of art is actually quite difficult: poetry. The official poet laureate program is wrapping up its ...