In celebration of National Poetry Month, we spoke with four Black poets about their connection to poetry and how they hope their latest books in verse will inspire readers. My grandfather was a poet, ...

It is said that poets see the world differently, sometimes it is by describing or telling the story in a simplistic manner whether it is a haiku, a sonnet or free verse. I find poetry is everywhere in ...

A form called the Golden Shovel honors the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, and you just need a newspaper to get started. By Leah Umansky Celebration and honor are two touchstones of the poetic tradition. With ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and favors ...

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My poems are not my own. They have their own soul; they are sentient. I have to let them write themselves. A few months ago, I was in Los Angeles for a weekend attending the L.A. Times Festival of ...

Stacie Cassarino is guiding the next generation of UCLA poets. On Wednesday afternoon, the UCLA English department held a poetry workshop with poet and alumnus Stacie Cassarino. The workshop, which ...

Poetry is maybe the most human of all human endeavors. One would think this is one of the very few fields that artificial intelligence could not take over. But according to a recent study, this is not ...

Although Veterans Day is a national holiday, often filled with parades and celebrations, it brings with it ambiguity. Howard Zinn, a World War II veteran, once wrote, "I do not want the recognition of ...