I thought poets were stuffy bards on Mount Olympus with no connection to the passions, provocations or language of earthly mortals. Until, in the 1970s, I came home from college for the winter ...

There are poems that express fragile sensitivity, poems that strive for cosmic profundity, poems that offer up idyllic perspectives on life that we would all be wise to emulate. But chances are, those ...

Sex sells T-shirts, cars and beer. It lights up our brains and slides into every pocket of our culture. But can it sell poetry? That’s the hope behind the Poetry Brothel, an immersive night of ...

“Yet if hope has flown away, in a night, or in a day. In a vision, or in none, is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.” Those were the resounding words ...

Those who know Marcellus Williams know him as an avid poet who has spent much of his time behind bars seeking faith and writing. Tuesday evening, poetry lovers honored Williams ahead of Wednesday’s ...

Long before Amanda Gorman's poetry reading at President Joe Biden's inauguration generated a massive interest in poetry, the art form has been thriving in Kansas City. Before the pandemic, regular ...

While the world may seem foreboding in 2025, poetry will continue to soothe souls at New Castle County’s Rockwood Museum and Park as poet-in-residence David P. Kozinski embarks on the fifth year of ...

On a steamy July afternoon in 2020, while the rest of the world was silenced by the coronavirus, the verdant hills of New Castle County’s Rockwood Park and Museum echoed with the elegance of poetry.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Langston Hughes has always held a special place in my heart—not just as a literary icon, but as a voice that’s guided me through different chapters of life. His words are like old ...

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I/I took the one leading to the O, Miami Poetry Festival.” It’s that time of year again when Miami gears up to celebrate one of its most cherished cultural events.

With spring well underway, the weather warming and the Earth coming back to life, is it any wonder that April is designated National Poetry Month in the United States? The literary celebration was ...