Poetry is one of the most powerful art forms we have. Since ancient times, poems — from haikus to sonnets to limericks — have succinctly and beautifully translated the joys and sorrows of the world ...

Jacinta White, a poet in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, started the Word Project as a way to help youth tell their stories through poetry. She conducts workshops designed to bridge social divisions ...

Separation of poetry from prose affects revolutionary consciousness, and deliberately cleaves the imaginative from the ...

Gustavo Hernandez's new book of poetry from FlowerSong Press is deeply rooted in Orange County. Its works explore the ways ...

UPDATE: The deadline for the spring poetry contest is now Sunday, April 30th by midnight! Every spring semester, the Howe Writing Center hosts a poetry contest that challenges writers with specific ...

As if the world weren't already full enough of awful human poetry, now the robot overlords want in. SEE ALSO: This cake-making robot puts your other household robots to shame Researchers from ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/poetry-poetry-album-old-saying-798018/ "Musicians must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he's to be ultimately at ...

There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets – often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Meanwhile, the Lincoln ...

Three years ago, a young spoken word poet named Sarah Kay dazzled the TED Conference, earning two standing ovations. Her performance about writing poetry to entertain and educate has since received ...

When I was in my early 20s, living in Berkeley and drifting toward a PhD in Russian literature, I started writing poetry. It was a completely unexpected development. I definitely hadn’t been one of ...